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Abigail Adams to Louisa Catherine Adams, 8 March 1802

Abigail Adams to Louisa Catherine Adams

Quincy March 8th 1802—

My dear Louissa

The Mountains have vanished, and the ground is again bare in most places. the roads are excessive rough, and the weather uncommonly cold for March. I hope it will Soften & the Roads become Smoother, before Saturday when I shall send in the carriage for you. I do not think that George will have the Measles.

I thought that Eepps Voyage to England, would end in a matrimonial engagement in Boston I wish her much happiness and Satisfaction. Whitcomb, & she Epps [ha]ve lived long enough together to know each others tempers dispositions & habits; and have the better chance for accommodating their tempers to each other. I hope they will meet with encouragement and Success.

as to finding you a cook in this place, I have not the least chance; We have not any such persons; I cannot find one for myself— I might find you a young Girl of ten or Eleven years old capable of attending George & running after him now he has got so large. and You might find it convenient to keep Betsy in the cooks place, and take a Girl who under Lyda might attend George1 You will judge of this yourself— I want to have George come up I am affraid he will forget us:

affectionatly Yours

A Adams

RC (Adams Papers); addressed: “Mrs Louissa Adams / Boston.” Some loss of text where the seal was removed.

1JQA and LCA hired Lydia Pray (ca. 1784–1864) as a servant in Dec. 1801 at the rate of $1 per week (LCA, D&A description begins Diary and Autobiographical Writings of Louisa Catherine Adams, ed. Judith S. Graham and others, Cambridge, 2013; 2 vols. description ends , 1:163; Boston Daily Advertiser, 4 Aug. 1864; M/JQA/11, APM Reel 208).

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