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Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, 10 September 1801

Abigail Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams

Quincy Sepbr 10th 1801—

Dear Thomas

Inclosed is a Letter for your Brother should he arrive as we expect in Philadelphia; I am told by mr Welch who was yesterday to see us that you have Letters from Hamburgh from your Brother dated in july—1 if He & family should arrive in health, as I pray God they may, there first visit will be I presume to Washington, I think as they will be so near, it ought to be—tho I can scarcly give up the pleasure of being seeing them as soon as they arrive— Yet I know both duty and inclination must lead Your Sister to visit her Parents as soon as possible after there her arrival. I would however enjoin it upon them, to come on here early in Novbr both the doctor Tufts and I have [thou]ght it best that Mrs Whitwell should give up the House she occupies in october when her year Ends, that Your Brother might have it to go into [for] a temporary residence this winter;2 She has it at a much smaller Rent than he can possibly hire even a poorer one for—and he can let it upon better terms whenever he chooses to quit it— Here at Quincy both he and his Family shall have a Home, untill he can be accom[od]ated in Boston.—

We have had some of the hottest weather for this fortnight that we have experienced through the Summer. the Glassess have stood at 90 in Boston, at 88 here for the four last days. it has debilitated me a good deal and given me a return of the old intermitting together with some Rhumatism. I find the best remedy a warm Bath— how do you sustain the Heat?

Sally went to Boston last week in order to return to Nyork, much against my advice and opinion, but the weather has been so intence that she is still there, and as I learnt yesterday very unwell. I have sent for her to return again here, and wait till october3

I hope you deliverd Brislers Letter to our Baker, as it is now so late in the Season I Should like to have new flower and four Barrels instead of two.4 when it is shiped he may give you a Bill of laiden, and his Bill which you will forward to me, and I will make the remittance through you— Your Father received a Letters from you last week. miss Brecks [was] sent to her—5

It is really so Hot I cannot add an other word, but that I am Your ever affectionate Mother

A Adams

I have a pr of half Boots at your se[rv]ice here, when ever you can send an order for them; or I get an opportunity of sending [them]—

RC (MHi:Adams Papers, All Generations). Some loss of text due to wear at the fold.

1AA’s enclosed letter to JQA and LCA has not been found (TBA to AA, 20 Sept., below). In a 7 July letter to TBA, JQA discussed his travel plans and noted that Bird, Savage & Bird held £500 that he hoped to collect when he returned to the United States (NN:Lee Kohns Coll.).

2Rebecca Parker Whitwell, the tenant of JQA’s Court Street house, occupied the property until her death in 1805 (vol. 13:249).

3Perhaps in response to AA’s summons, SSA reported in a [Sept. 1801] letter that she planned to depart Boston for New York City despite her continuing illness (private owner, 1957).

4Philadelphia merchant Thomas Allibone (d. 1809) lived at 98 North Fourth Street and operated a store next to 109 Water Street (TBA to AA, 14 April 1802, Adams Papers; Philadelphia American Daily Advertiser, 11 July 1809; Philadelphia Directory, 1802, p. 16, Shaw-Shoemaker description begins Ralph R. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker, American Bibliography: A Preliminary Checklist for 1801–1819, New York, 1958–1966; 22 vols.; supplemental edn., Early American Imprints, www.readex.com. description ends , No. 2893).

5Not found.

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