Dear Abigail : the intimate lives and revolutionary ideas of Abigail Adams and her two remarkable sisters
Summary
"Never sisters loved each other better than we."--Abigail Adams in a letter to her sister Mary, June 1776. Much has been written about the enduring marriage of President John Adams and his wife, Abigail. But few know of the equally strong bond Abigail shared with her sisters, Mary Cranch and Elizabe... Full description
- "Never sisters loved each other better than we"
- "Oppression is enough to make a wise people mad"
- "Sister"
- "Something great is daily expected"
- "A solemn scene of joy"
- "The heart which is susceptible to all the finer sensations is ever subject to the deepest wounds"
- "The steel and the magnet"
- "How many how various how complicated my sensations!"
- "A joy in which our reason plays no part is but a sorrow"
- "The die is cast"
- "The disunited State of America"
- "With much joy and pleasure"
- "The most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived"
- "Too painful to think upon"
- "Second to no man but Washington"
- "Yours are mine and mine are yours"
- "One of Sister Cranchs letters is worth a half dozen of others"
- "Always I hope for the best."