Docno: ADMS-04-01-02-0094
Author: Cranch, Mary Smith
Recipient: Adams, Abigail
Date: 1774-08-20
[dateline] Boston August 20 1774
[salute] Dear Sister
I thank you my dear Sister for all your kind offers. I have not been able yet to get
Miss Dolly Read. I expected her yesterday: but what has prevented I cant say. As to
moving, we want to see Mr. Russel before we talk again with Mr. Cleavely.
1 Mr. Cranch is so hurried with Work that he does not know how to spare time to see
after any thing, and I am so unwell that I am not able too. I do not know what is
the reason but I never felt so low spirit'd in my life. I have been so long in an
uncertainty what we ought to do: and one Friend advising one way and one another that
I feel rack'd. I think I cannot bear it much
{ 144 } longer. I am full of aprehentions of—I dont know what. What unnumberd distresses has
Lord North brought upon thousands of Innocent Creatures. I have more charity than
to think he ever realized half of them.—What an answer the Governer has given our
congress. Some part of it gives me more fear of insults than I have had
yet I long to see the reply.—Mr. Tufts will take your cheese so you may send them
as soon as you please. I was so unwell a Teusday that I thought I had better come
home and I have a great many things to do before I move. We rejoice to hear Mr. Adams
is well and hope it will not be long before it will be convenient for him to come
home. The divine protection be his guard where ever he is, is the ardent Wish of your
affectionate sister,