From Abigail Smith Adams to Lucy Cranch Greenleaf, October 1811
[Oct. 1811]
Dear Neice
I heard last Evening of the melancholy event, and sincerely sympathize with the afflicted family I send you some peices of crape they are rusty, but the best we have. if you attend the funeral, and want a Bonnet, if mine will answer and my crape cloak they are at your service—I intended to have asked You here to day to have past it, with mrs Cushing and Caroline, but a melancholy duty calls you else where
Yours affec’ly
A A—
MWA: Adams Papers.