Abigail and John Adams’s correspondence, spanning the years 1762 to 1801, covers the most important forty years in American history. The topics that are most monumental: revolution, independence, and nation building. From the time when John left Abigail in Braintree “...to represent Massachusetts at the First Continental Congress in August 1774 until he returned home to the renamed Quincy in 1801, upon his completion of presidency, he spent twenty-seven years in almost uninterrupted public service (Hogan & Taylor xiii).” The two formed the “best-known husband and wife partnership in American history (Hogan & Taylor xiii).
In the year of 1762, John Adams wrote a loving letter to “Miss Adorable”, known as Abigail Adams, at the age of 17. Two …show more content…
“Both Abigail and John Adams decried long separations during their marriage, but the unintended legacy of such trials were the thoughtful, loving and literate letters exchanged by the couple that opens a window on the birth and early years of our republic…(barnes and noble, editorial reviews). All the presidents before and after John Adams destroyed their correspondences, leaving America with no direct evidence of the relationships between wives, whereas the Adams’s correspondence, never meant to be shared outside of the intermediate family, has become famous (New York Times, 2). New York Times, “My Dearest Friend” begins with a 1762 courtship letter to the 17-year-old Abigail Smith from the 26-year-old John Adams, and ends (except for an 1818 epilogue describing Abigail’s death) with the last, at least surviving, letter Abby wrote to John, before he left Washington in 1801. Leaving his presidency almost completely unsuccessful (New York Times 3). Weekly Standard, also, wrote a review on the book, stating that “in helping to found a country where their children… could grow up free, John and Abigail… left behind marvelously detailed, literate, and loving letters to each other…”(Barnes and Noble, editorial reviews). They state, to their understandings, he put it to himself “she was his ballast, steadying the ship and keeping him moving forward, and he would not have become the great man he did without her…”(Barnes and Noble, editorial
In the year of 1762, John Adams wrote a loving letter to “Miss Adorable”, known as Abigail Adams, at the age of 17. Two …show more content…
“Both Abigail and John Adams decried long separations during their marriage, but the unintended legacy of such trials were the thoughtful, loving and literate letters exchanged by the couple that opens a window on the birth and early years of our republic…(barnes and noble, editorial reviews). All the presidents before and after John Adams destroyed their correspondences, leaving America with no direct evidence of the relationships between wives, whereas the Adams’s correspondence, never meant to be shared outside of the intermediate family, has become famous (New York Times, 2). New York Times, “My Dearest Friend” begins with a 1762 courtship letter to the 17-year-old Abigail Smith from the 26-year-old John Adams, and ends (except for an 1818 epilogue describing Abigail’s death) with the last, at least surviving, letter Abby wrote to John, before he left Washington in 1801. Leaving his presidency almost completely unsuccessful (New York Times 3). Weekly Standard, also, wrote a review on the book, stating that “in helping to found a country where their children… could grow up free, John and Abigail… left behind marvelously detailed, literate, and loving letters to each other…”(Barnes and Noble, editorial reviews). They state, to their understandings, he put it to himself “she was his ballast, steadying the ship and keeping him moving forward, and he would not have become the great man he did without her…”(Barnes and Noble, editorial