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Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 8 March 1778
" . . . r blot from our remembrance or wipe out those indellible stains of their cruelty and baseness. They have engraven them with a pen of Iron and Led in a Rock forever. To my dear Son Remember me in the most affectionate terms. I would have wrote to him but my notice is so short that I have not time. Injoin it upon him Never to Disgrace his Mother , and to behave worthy of his Father . Tender as Materna . . . " full document...