1From Hannah Phillips Cushing to Abigail Smith Adams, 11 May 1808 (Adams Papers)
I had the happiness of receiving your excellent letter at Middleton, for which my heart is alive...
We were blessed with fine weather & roads from Providence to Phila., where we staid a fortnight;...
If my hands could have obeyed the dictates of my heart I should have written to you long before...
We are again permitted to return home in good health, after having passed as pleasant a winter as...
I was much disappointed My Dear Madam in not having it in my power to see you again before we...