MHS News
Current newsletterNew Acquisition: Letter from Abigail Adams to Cotton Tufts
Published: Thursday, 9 June, 2011, 1:43 PM
The Massachusetts Historical Society is pleased to announce that it recently acquired a letter that Abigail Adams wrote on 2 March 1788 to Dr. Cotton Tufts, the Adamses' financial agent in the United States for the period that they were abroad. Judge Lawrence T. Perera donated [...] read more
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America's Second Revolution: New England, Old England, & the Civil War
2:00PM Saturday, 19 January 2013
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