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Adams, Abigail Smith (1744-1818, wife of John, designated as AA in The Adams Papers):
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quotes from and refers to the Bible47
quotes unidentified poetry17
regards Chesterfield in his Letters a “Hypocritical, polished Libertine, a mere Lovelace,” who has moreover “exhibited a peculiar Asperity against the Sex”5
finds Sir William Temple rewarding for information on Netherlands and for parallels to JA's negotiations4
acquires respect for accomplishments of French ladies from Shebbeare's Letters 1
AFC03
adapts Pope's “On Sir Godfrey Kneller”1
AFC05
Addison's Cato, quoted1
AFC04
admiration for Mrs. Macaulay and her writings1
AFC01
admires and quotes from the fable of the sparrow and dove in Edward Moore's Poems 1
AFC03
advises Tyler on studies1
AFC05
Aesop's fables1
AFC07
alludes to Samuel Johnson1
AFC06
Bolingbroke's political tracts quoted1
AFC04
Brydone's Tour through Sicily and Malta 1
AFC02
Cervantes1
AFC07
comments on Joshua Reynolds1
AFC06
describes architecture of French theater1
AFC06
during inoculation with smallpox1
AFC02
epitaph for Samuel Johnson1
AFC07
finds apt maxims in the Duc de Sully's Mémoires 1
AFC03
Fordyce's Sermons to Young Women 1
AFC01
Hester Piozzi1
AFC07
holds Burgoyne's style “intricate ... pompous ... and rather Bordering on the fustian”1
AFC03
Hume's History of England 1
AFC02
interest in reading and writing poetry1
AFC01
Isaac Watts1
AFC07
James Boswell1
AFC07
James Fordyce's Sermons commended for attitude toward women1
AFC04
John Dalrymple1
AFC07
John Fothergill1
AFC07
John Home1
AFC07
Milton1
AFC07
Nicholas Rowe1
AFC07
on the rearing and education of children1
AFC01
Plutarch1
AFC07
Prodicus of Ceos1
AFC07
quotes Hannah More's “Sir Eldred of the Bower”1
AFC05
quotes Horace's Epistles 1
AFC05
quotes John Gay's Shepherd's Week(?)1
AFC05
quotes Montaigne1
AFC05
quotes observations in James Harrington applicable to present state of Britain1
AFC03
quotes Pliny (the Younger?)1
AFC05
quotes Pope1
AFC05
quotes Pope Clement XIV's Interesting Letters 1
AFC05
quotes Sallust's Jugurthine War 1
AFC05
quotes Shakespeare's Othello 1
AFC06
quotes Shakespeare's Tempest 1
AFC05
quotes Thiéry's Almanach de voyageur à Paris 1
AFC06
quotes Thomson's Seasons 1
AFC05
refers to Dyanthe (Diana?)1
AFC05
refers to Machiavelli1
AFC05
refers to Mandeville's Fable of the Bees 1
AFC05
refers to Molière's Bourgeois Gentilhomme 1
AFC05
requests copy of Select Essays upon Husbandry 1
AFC02
Rochefoucauld1
AFC07
Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, quoted1
AFC03
Solon the Lawgiver1
AFC07
Timothy Dwight1
AFC07
uses Dodsley's Preceptor 1
AFC06
Westminster Catechism1
AFC07
William Collins' “Ode” (“How sleep the brave”)1
AFC01
William Mason1
AFC07
will send books to Shaw children1
AFC06
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