James Lovell to Abigail Adams, 27 November 1779

James Lovell to Abigail Adams

27th. of Novr. [1779]

My dear Lady

I cannot recollect whether I sent No. 311 before. I promised your Husband to continue to forward the Journals: But my Wish is not to break the Numbers so as to spoil a Set for any body else. If therefore I at any Time repeat a Number you will be so good as to return it; and if I omit one you will demand it. I suppose Mr. A did not leave the 1st. 2d. or 3d. Vol.2 in his Library. If he did I will send you a Set of 1779 to keep at home; and forward myself directly to the Navy Board what I design for him. But you must not keep any of the Pages of 1778, because I shall have but one Course of them.

Yours, with affectionate Respect,

James Lovell

RC (Adams Papers); addressed and franked: “Mrs. A. Adams Braintree Philada. Jas. Lovell.”

1. Of the weekly issues of the Journal of Congress for 1779; see the preceding letter.

2. Of the Journals of Congress issued in volume form, for 1774–1775, 1776, and 1777, respectively. The volume for 1778 had not yet been published. For copies surviving among JA’s books, see Catalogue of JA’s Library description begins Catalogue of the John Adams Library in the Public Library of the City of Boston, Boston, 1917. description ends , p. 60–61.

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Title: James Lovell to Abigail Adams, 27 November 1779
Author: Lovell, James
Recipient: Adams, Abigail
Date: 27 November 1779

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Cite as: “James Lovell to Abigail Adams, 27 November 1779,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/04-03-02-0181. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Adams Family Correspondence, vol. 3, April 1778 – September 1780, ed. L. H. Butterfield and Marc Friedlaender. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1973, pp. 239–240.]

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