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John Quincy Adams to Abigail Adams
Docno: AFC03d023
Recipient: AA
Date: 1778-05-24
[dateline] Paris May ye 24 1778
[salute] Hond Mamma
I now having an opportunity which to my Satisfaction I have much oftener than I expected when I first came here, in which I improve every time I can in writing to you who has always been so kind a Mamma to me.
I last night went to the theatre, after we had got there we found there was no places empty upon which we came home again.
{p. 29}
[salute] I must now conclude in being your dutiful son.
[signed] John Quincy Adams
RC
Adams Papers
; addressed in JA's hand: “Mrs. John Adams Braintree near Boston Massachusetts-Bay.” Text is given here in literal style.
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/