From 7 to 30 April 2008, the Society will mount an exhibition of Adams manuscripts at the Frederick The Catherine Pelton Durrell '25 Archives and Special Collections Library at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York; the exhibition is shown in celebration of John Adams, the miniseries being broadcast on HBO over six weeks beginning on 16 March.  "My Dearest Friend" consists primarily of letters exchanged between John and Abigail Adams. While only a sampling of their almost 1,200 surviving letters is on display, the correspondence of John and Abigail is the cornerstone of the most important collection held by the Society, the Adams Family Papers. The exhibition will include some of the most famous letters in American history such as Abigail Adams's admonition to husband John to "Remember the Ladies," as he worked on the "Declaration of Independency," in a letter dated 31 March 1776; his description for her of the vote for independence in Philadelphia three months later; and John's 2 November 1800 letter to her from the President's House, the first letter written from the White House, illustrated by James Hoban's original floor plan of the executive mansion.