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Abigail Adams to Oliver Wendell
Docno: AFC03d199
Recipient: Wendell, Oliver
Date: 1779-12-27
[dateline] Braintree December 27 1779
[salute] Sir
Your obligeing reply to my request demands my Thanks. I have taken the Liberty of sending 5 Guinea's to be exchanged—any time within these ten days will answer. I was told last week that exchange was at 35, but you Sir are in a better situation to be informd than I am, and I have full confidence in your kindness which forbids me to apoligize for the trouble given you, by your Humble Servant,
[signed] Abigail Adams
PS Respectfull complements to Mrs. Wendell. Be so good as to enclose the Money to me and leave it at Mr. Smiths [with]
1 directions to send it by a safe Hand.
RC
Hugh Upham Clark, Arlington, Va., owner of the Austin H. Clark Collection, prints of which have been deposited in MBCo
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LbC
Adams Papers
; omits postscript; at foot of text: “To the Honble. Oliver Wendell Boston.”
1. MS torn.
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/