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Adams, Abigail Smith (1744-1818, wife of John, designated as AA in The Adams Papers):
Domestic and Social Life
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sends fabric, clothing, and goods to Cranches21
receives visitors and entertains at Grosvenor Square18
makes and receives visits17
sends fabric, clothing, and goods to family in U.S.14
presentation to George III and Queen Charlotte13
orders household items through JA in Philadelphia11
visits and dines out in France11
visits to the James Warrens at Plymouth and Milton and from the Warrens and their children10
meets and describes Mme. Helvétius4
AFC05
correspondence with Lovell3
AFC03
loves house and garden at Auteuil3
AFC05
presence of Estaing's fleet occasions round of visits and dinners on shipboard and in Braintree3
activities of reported in newspapers1
AFC07
aids British prisoners of war1
AFC03
and brother-in-law John Shaw1
AFC03
anticipates move to London1
AFC06
arranges for milk and cream delivery1
AFC06
asks family not to mention gifts received from1
AFC07
as matchmaker for Cotton Tufts1
AFC07
attends funeral for Duke of Northumberland1
AFC07
attends opera1
AFC07
attends Tea Party commemoration1
AFC05
Bath city band performs for1
AFC07
breakfasts out in London1
AFC06
breakfasts with David Humphreys1
AFC07
breakfasts with Edward Bridgen1
AFC07
cares for Mary Jefferson in London1
AFC07
characterizes Anne Bingham1
AFC05
compares domestic duties in London and Braintree1
AFC06
concern that gifts to relatives not offend1
AFC06
confidential correspondence with Mary Cranch1
AFC05
declines opportunity to attend opening of Parliament1
AFC07
describes Epiphany dinner1
AFC06
describes “Ladies Route”1
AFC07
describes London fashion1
AFC05
describes Sundays in Paris1
AFC05
“dined Nine Gentlemen to Day”1
AFC01
dines with Dana1
AFC05
dining habits in London1
AFC06
dislikes attending balls without accompaniment1
AFC07
does not attend Court regularly1
AFC06
does not cook or clean in Auteuil1
AFC06
encourages Jefferson to come to London1
AFC07
enjoys imagining being in Braintree1
AFC06
exchanges visits with diplomats1
AFC06
excluded from Patience Wright's conversation with JA1
AFC06
frustrated at custom of not being at home to callers1
AFC05
gives home remedy for jaundice1
AFC06
has dog named Caesar1
AFC06
has set of dining room tables made1
AFC06
hears JA arrive home, puts on tea1
AFC05
horseback riding1
AFC06
housekeeping1
AFC01
“I am still left alone”1
AFC01
“I endeavour to live in the most frugal manner posible”1
AFC01
ignored by Boston's “Beau Mond”1
AFC05
“I have been like a nun in a cloister”1
AFC01
“I have lived a very recluse life since your absence”1
AFC01
“I have so little of the Ape about me; that I have refused every publick invitation”1
AFC05
in Boston (Dec. 1780)1
AFC04
informs Jefferson about Capt. Henry Stanhope1
AFC07
inoculation with smallpox general among Adams family and circle1
AFC03
intends to buy clothing in Paris1
AFC05
invitations to public assemblies declined1
AFC04
invites ship captains to dine with Adamses1
AFC07
Jefferson awaits instruction about wine1
AFC06
Jefferson introduces to Anne Mangeot de Corny1
AFC07
Jefferson visits1
AFC07
John Boylston visited in England (1787)1
AFC04
journal-letter deeply moves Mary Cranch1
AFC05
learns of death of Lucy Quincy Tufts1
AFC07
leaves dinner early1
AFC06
makes family clothing1
AFC01
makes inquiries about Simon Tufts1
AFC07
makes inquiries about Simon Tufts Jr. in London1
AFC07
marriage to JA1
AFC01
meets Generals Washington and Lee1
AFC01
misses “Sallet” and peas1
AFC05
more active in London than in Paris1
AFC05
nurses brother-in-law1
AFC05
on illness and death of JA's brother Elihu1
AFC01
on scarcity of West Indies goods1
AFC01
orders salt fish1
AFC06
plays cards1
AFC07
pleased with London home, friends, family's prospects1
AFC05
Quincys take refuge with1
AFC01
receives large turtle for banquet1
AFC06
rumored to have dined with Prince of Wales1
AFC07
satisfactions in correspondence with Thaxter1
AFC03
seeks commission for JA's brother Elihu1
AFC01
sends account for books purchased for Manasseh Cutler1
AFC07
sends copy of Prussian treaty to Isaac Smith Sr.1
AFC07
sends money to Cotton Tufts1
AFC07
sends newspapers to Jefferson1
AFC07
sociableness of neighbors in time of crisis1
AFC01
social engagements at Bath1
AFC07
spends day at home for callers1
AFC06
stays at Bath Hotel, London1
AFC07
“such a rapid succession of events have been crouded into the last two Months of my Life, that I can scarcly recollect them, much less recount them”1
AFC05
Superior Court judges and members of bar dine with1
AFC02
supplies and clothes at Braintree home1
AFC06
tells anecdote about loneliness1
AFC06
“the House ... shakes with the roar of Cannon”1
AFC01
the Warrens visit1
AFC01
Thomas Welsh asks to procure lace for Harriet Welsh1
AFC07
thoughts wander to JA and JQA in Paris1
AFC05
to arrange purchase of clothes in England for Elizabeth Shaw1
AFC05
tours Tuileries1
AFC06
travels limited1
AFC03
unfavorable view of her sister Elizabeth's engagement1
AFC02
unwilling to pay to attend benefit night at theater1
AFC07
visited by Dr. Aaron Dexter1
AFC04
visited by Dr. Waterhouse1
AFC04
visited by Ellerys1
AFC04
visited by Lètombe1
AFC04
visited by Sir James Jay and George Digges1
AFC03
visit from Samuel Adams and wife1
AFC01
visits Cranches1
AFC05
visits former home of Elizabeth Storer Atkinson1
AFC07
visits French warship1
AFC05
visits from Thaxter sisters1
AFC04
visits Hampstead1
AFC07
visits New England Coffee House1
AFC07
visits Paris orphanage1
AFC06
visits Thaxter family1
AFC03
visits with Charles Warren1
AFC07
visit to Haverhill1
AFC03
wants niece's cats1
AFC06
wants private chamber where she can write “Letters and keep my papers unmollested”1
AFC02
wants shagbark hickory nuts from Massachusetts1
AFC06
wants sister to share journal-letter with friends1
AFC05
watches balloon flight1
AFC06
“We feel a temporary peace”1
AFC01
“We live in continual Expectation of Hostilities”1
AFC01
William Shaw requests book from1
AFC07
wishes to hear Archibald Maclaine1
AFC07
won't buy staples at inflated prices1
AFC02
“would not wish to see such a family picture in print”1
AFC05
would trade Auteuil house for her “own little Cottage”1
AFC05
yearns to speak French1
AFC03
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