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Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 8 March 1778
" . . . n found, was never acknowledged by JA, and therefore probably never reached him. March 8 1778 Tis a little more than 3 weeks since the dearest of Friends and tenderest of Husbands
left his solitary partner
, and quitted all the fond endearments of domestick felicity for the dangers of the Sea, exposed perhaps to the attack of a Hostile foe, and o good Heaven can I add to the dark ass . . . "
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