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Samuel Adams to Abigail Adams
Docno: AFC02d092
Recipient: AA
Date: 1776-10-03
[dateline] Boston Octob. 3. 76
Mr. Samuel Adams sends his affectionate Regards to Mrs. Adams (in which his own Mrs. Adams heartily joyns) and acquaints her that he shall sett off next Week or Monday see'night at the farthest for Philadelphia and is desirous of rendering his best Services to Mrs. A. He wishes to know the State of her Family with Respect to their Health; is very sorry that he has not had the Opportunity of making her a Visit at Braintree, a Pleasure which he has missed of by Reason of constant Avocations, which he begs may excuse him.
He had the pleasure of receiving a Letter from his Friend and Colleague Mr. JA of the 14th of September,1 and supposes he has written to his Lady since that Date. He only adds that the Conduct
{p. 137}
of his Friend at Staten Island affords an additional Reason why his Country should still covet and even demand his further publick Services.
RC
Adams Papers
; addressed: “Mrs. John Adams Braintree.”
1. LbC (Adams Papers); printed under the wrong date of 17 Sept. in JA's Works
, 9:443–446. ||JA copied the letter into his Autobiography in an “entry” dated 17 Sept. 1776.||
Cite web page as: Founding Families: Digital Editions of the Papers of the Winthrops and the Adamses, ed.C. James Taylor. Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 2007.
http://www.masshist.org/ff/
http://www.masshist.org/ff/