1Hannah Phillips Cushing to Abigail Adams, 8 October 1798 (Adams Papers)
By letters received from Boston I was grieved to learn that you had been very ill. It would give me great pleasure to hear, that your health is perfectly restored. We have been roving to & from, since we had the pleasure of meeting you. We reached Philadelphia the 5 th. of August & left it the 9 th. ; Court sitting only three days as the alarm of the prevailing fever had in that time become...
2Hannah Cushing to Abigail Adams, 28 March 1800 (Adams Papers)
Your sisterly kindness to me my dear Madam induces me to believe that to hear of our welfare will not be uninteresting to you. We were blessed with fine weather every day until the last from Newhaven here when the wind at NE produced a violent snow storm that night (the 28 of Feb y ) & the next day, when we considered ourselves very fortunate beings in arriving here before it took place. The...