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James Lovell to Abigail Adams
Docno: AFC03d183
Recipient: AA
Date: 1779-11-27
[dateline] 27th. of Novr. [1779]
[salute] My dear Lady
I cannot recollect whether I sent No. 311 before. I promised your Husband to continue to forward the Journals: But my Wish is not to break the Numbers so as to spoil a Set for any body else. If therefore I at any Time repeat a Number you will be so good as to return it; and if I omit one you will demand it. I suppose Mr. A did not leave the 1st.
{p. 240}
2d. or 3d. Vol.2 in his Library. If he did I will send you a Set of 1779 to keep at home; and forward myself directly to the Navy Board what I design for him. But you must not keep any of the Pages of 1778, because I shall have but one Course of them.
[salute] Yours, with affectionate Respect,
[signed] James Lovell
RC
Adams Papers
; addressed and franked: “Mrs. A. Adams Braintree Philada. Jas. Lovell.”
1. Of the weekly issues of the Journal of Congress for 1779; see the preceding letter.
2. Of the Journals of Congress issued in volume form, for 1774–1775, 1776, and 1777, respectively. The volume for 1778 had not yet been published. For copies surviving among JA's books, see
Catalogue of JA's Library
, p. 60–61.
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/