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Adams, Abigail, 2d (Nabby, Amelia, 1765-1813, daughter of AA and JA, wife of William Stephens Smith, designated as AA2 in The Adams Papers):

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studies and translates French8

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Bell's Poets of Great Britain 2

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considers studying French in a convent2

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quotes Hamlet 2

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quotes Pope's “Ode on St. Cecilia's Day”2

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Sterne2

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asks for JA's recommendations1

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comments on MacKenzie's Julia de Roubigné 1

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JA buys Shakespeare for1

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Prodicus of Ceos1

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quotes unidentified literary passage1

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reads sermons1

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recounts an opera1

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Shakespeare1

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Books and Reading

Character, Appearance, Habits, Domestic life

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Courtship by Royall Tyler

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Relationship with JQA

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