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Letters between John and Abigail Adams (1 files)
Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 11 February 1784
" . . . f the Six Years have been Spent in America . The airy delusive phantom Hope, how has she eluded my prospects. And my expectations of your return from month to month, have vanished
You invite me to you
, you call me to follow you, the most earnest wish of my soul is to be with you -- but you can scarcly form an Idea of the conflict of my mind. It appears to me such an enterprize . . . "
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