Adams Papers

Abigail Adams to Hannah Storer Green, 14 July 1765

Abigail Adams to Hannah Storer Green

[ post 14 July 1765 ] 1

My Good old Friend

How many months have passed away since I have either written or received a line from my Dear Caliope? What various Scenes have I passed thro? Your Diana become a Mamma—can you credit it? Indeed it is a sober truth. Bless’d with a charming Girl whose pretty Smiles already delight my Heart, who is the Dear Image of her still Dearer Pappa. You my Friend are well acquainted with all the tender feelings of a parent, therefore I need not apologize for the present overflow. I have many things to say to you. Gratitude demands an acknowledgment for your kind present to my Daughter. She I hope will live to make you some return for your unmerrited goodness to her.

Dft (Adams Papers, bound at back of M/JA/5, Adams Papers, Microfilms, Reel No. 183.)

1Dated from its reference to the birth of the Adamses’ eldest child, Abigail (AA2), 14 July 1765. On AA2, later Mrs. William Stephens Smith, see Adams Genealogy.

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