1Hannah Quincy Lincoln Storer to Abigail Adams, 27 November 1793 (Adams Papers)
Had you My respected friend join’d the Small, tho’ social Circle the last Thursday, it would have been an addition to our pleasure, but by your first friend I was Soon prevented Saying Much upon the Subject—[“]as none he Said ought to be present at the parting of Hector and Andromache but the Nurse and Child”— I have his permission to ask your Company for a day but a Night he would not consent...
2Abigail Adams to Hannah Quincy Lincoln Storer, 29 January 1790 (Adams Papers)
By my son who Sets out in the morning on his return to Boston, I write to thank you for your kind Letter of december, and for the present which accompanied it. the Butter was very fine, and much Superiour to any that I have been able to procure here. if I did not hear others complain of that article, I should be led to doubt my own judgment, and to suppose that I had brought my Yankee fancies...
3Hannah Quincy Lincoln Storer to Abigail Adams, 12 December 1789 (Adams Papers)
Will My good and worthy friend M rs. Adams, give Me leave to request her acceptance of a Small Tub of Butter? Such as we think very good, and I hope it will not come a miss, as we hear it is a Scarce Article in Newyork— What think you dear Madam of the Match going on in Our family? do you think My Sister Nancy calculated for a Ministers Wife ? a M r. Packard of Marlborough is the selected...