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Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch, ca. 18 October 1800

Abigail Adams to Mary Smith Cranch

[ca. 18 October 1800]1

my dear sister

It is a great Grief to me my dear sister that I can do so little for you in your trouble when I owe So Much to you. beside being much of an invalide myself Jackson is very sick keeps his Bed—and a thousand cares devolve upon me in concequence of the sudden determination very reluctantly enterd into from a sense at this late period, without any previous arrangment— but all this is small in comparison to leaving Mrs Norten and you Sick— Becky will watch with You to night— I send some Wine for mrs Norten, and pray you to send me your demijohn

Mrs smith and Betsy Howard are gone to Town to day

I have to prepare ten of us to go away—a new coach man to seek— I did not design You should have had any intelligence about it, but mrs Smith says she told You a saturday. pray let me aid You with any thing I have that you want—2

RC (MWA:Abigail Adams Letters).

1The dating of this letter is based on AA’s description of James Jackson’s condition in her letter to JA of 18 Oct., above.

2AA wrote again to Cranch [ante 27 Oct.] (MWA:Abigail Adams Letters), expressing concern about Cranch’s health and informing her that she had sent apples and pears and would send flour as well. AA also inquired about Cranch’s condition in a series of letters to Lucy Cranch Greenleaf, writing twice [ante 22 Oct.], once [ante 26 Oct.], and three times [ante 27 Oct.]. She also told Greenleaf that she would send supplies to the family and offered to assist with the care of Lucy Greenleaf and John Greenleaf Jr. (all MWA:Abigail Adams Letters).

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