The passages from Abigail’s letters were also brought to life frequently in songs from the Broadway musical 1776. According to historian Joseph Ellis, these letters indicated her resilient and intellectual personality. In these letters, she highlighted the need for women empowerment in the eighteenth century United States and abolition of Slavery, which she considered an evil that tarnished the American democratic model. Her correspondence with her husband on issues of politics and governance through letters is the most documented of all the First ladies. She was the first Second Lady and second First Lady of the United States. She was also the mother of John Quincy Adams, the sixth President of the United States. Cairnes has takenĬharge of 15.Abigail Adams was the wife and confidante of the second President of the United States, John Adams. The Dutchess Danville somewhat recovered from Nunnez, before destined for London is to come here. The Count d'Aranda, who has desired and obtained his recall. The old houses on the old bridges are in a course The hotel dieu is to be abandoned and new When a measure so capable of doing good as the calling the Notables is treated with so much ridicule, we may conclude the nation desperate, and in charity pray that heaven may send them good kings. The people at large view every object only as it may furnish puns and bon mots and I pronounce that a good punster would disarm the whole nation were they ever so seriously disposed to revolt. This occasion, more than any thing I have seen, convinces me that this nation is incapable of any serious effort but under the word of command. I think were they all collected it would make a more voluminous work than the Encyclopedie. The most remarkeable effect of this convention as yet is the number of puns and bon mots it has generated. Cairnes I shall have heard something of their proceedings worth communicating to Mr. Our Notables assembled to-day, and I hope before the departure of Mr. And yet they complain of us for not giving them intelligence. Hear when I come back from my journey, which will be eight months after he will have been chosen. It is wonderful that no letter or paper tells us who is president of Congress, tho' there are letters in Paris to the beginning of January. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. Submission on condition of pardon, and before the answer of government was known. They left off too in a critical moment just at the point where the Malcontents make their They were the latest I had seen or have yet seen. and of the papers you were so good as to send me. I am to acknolege the honor of your letter of Jan.

The letters of abigail adams