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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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views of French society, manners, and women7

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465

comments on theater5

compares England, France, and America5

Anne Bingham3

AFC07

Ann Hamilton3

AFC07

Brit. society3

AFC07

comments on dining customs3

AFC06

fashion3

AFC07

“I shall learn to prize my own Country above all others”3

AFC05

separation of family members3

AFC07

unimpressed with British royalty and Court scene3

AFC06

characterizes Americans' respect for travelers to Europe2

AFC05
AFC06
220

compares U.S. and Brit. society2

AFC07
36
56

criticizes European visiting customs2

AFC06

dangers of flute-playing2

Dorothea Jordan2

AFC07
37
39

Elizabeth Mayhew2

AFC07
16
26

finds Europe alters people very little, is not so different from America2

AFC05

George III2

AFC07

John Brown Cutting2

AFC07

negotiations with Barbary States2

AFC07

Prince of Wales2

AFC07

T. A. Lloyd's The Romp 2

AFC07
37
39

Thomas Lee Shippen2

AFC07

values travel as education2

AFC05
AFC06
220

women2

AFC07

AA and JA's possible return to U.S.1

AFC07

Abigail Rogers1

AFC07
56

Americans in England1

AFC07
302

anger at court servants asking for gifts from foreign ministers1

AFC06
300

Anglo-Amer. commercial treaty1

AFC07
153

Anglo-French commercial treaty1

AFC07
28

apologies are “the dullest part of a Dull letter”1

AFC06
471

appointment of JA as consul to Britain1

AFC07
152

attempted assassination of George III1

AFC07

attraction of Amer. women to foreigners1

AFC06
308

beauty1

AFC07
13

behavior of brothers1

AFC07
376

Benjamin Vaughan1

AFC07
155

Britain1

AFC07
302

Brit. love of food and drink1

AFC07
154

changing view of French society1

characterizes several nationalities1

AFC06
308

Charles Storer1

AFC07
283

Charles Warren1

AFC07
203

Chevalier Dolomieu1

AFC07
24

compares histories of Amer. Revolution1

AFC07

compares Mass. and New York1

AFC07
330

compares Virginians1

AFC07
42

criticizes Dutch slovenliness1

AFC06
304

curiosity common to both sexes1

AFC05
200

customs at Harvard1

AFC07
283

David Humphreys1

AFC07
37

Dirk Wolter Lynden van Blitterswyck1

AFC07
42

disapproves gaiety and show of London1

AFC06
182

dislikes attending balls unaccompanied1

AFC07
18

dislikes “Masculine air” of English women1

AFC06
470

Elizabeth Brand1

AFC07
297

Englishmen1

AFC07
17

exercise1

AFC07
330

faults Congress' treatment of Amer. ministers1

AFC06
434

foreign ministers1

AFC07
302

friendship1

AFC07
54

happiness1

AFC07
54

happiness dependent on external circumstances1

AFC05
207

John Anstey1

AFC07
17

John Skey Eustace1

AFC07
332

John Trumbull's Death of General Warren 1

AFC07

Joseph Priestley1

AFC07
155

judgmental attitudes of others1

AFC07
375

loyalty to one's home state1

AFC07

Maria Cosway1

AFC07

marriage1

AFC07
55

mistakes an Englishman for a Frenchman1

AFC06

on partiality to places of residence1

AFC06
435

opera1

AFC07
154

Osterley Park1

AFC07
204

Pascal Paoli1

AFC07
16

performing animals1

AFC07
211

praises French fashion1

AFC06

relations between Britain and U.S.1

AFC07
21

relations between men and women1

AFC07

respect paid to Dauphin ridiculous1

AFC05
454

Richard Harrison1

AFC07
332

Richard Peters1

AFC07

Richard Price1

AFC07
20

romantic love1

AFC05
52

R. R. Randall1

AFC07
20

Sarah Siddons1

AFC07
22

Sidi Haggi 'Abd-ur-rahman Aga1

AFC07
284

suspicious of people's politeness and intentions1

AFC06
381

theater1

AFC07

The Hyde1

AFC07
298

“the people [of Paris] are the dirtiest creatures in the Human race”1

AFC05

The Provoked Husband 1

AFC07
25

thinks the English more prejudiced than the French1

AFC06

Thomas Brand Hollis1

AFC07
297

travel to English countryside1

AFC07
300

uses of visiting1

AFC07
15

U.S. fascination with Europe1

AFC07
56

West Indians1

AFC07
39

William and Anne Blake1

AFC07
39

William Bingham1

AFC07
22

William Langborn1

AFC07
285

William Vans Murray1

AFC07
332

Winslow Warren1

AFC07
283

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