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Adams family correspondence

by Lyman Henry Butterfield

Cover of Adams family correspondence

A collection of letters exchanged by members of the Adams family through three full generations and part of a fourth beginning with the courtship of John Adams and Abigail Smith and ending with the death of Abigail Brooks Adams, wife of the first Charles Francis Adams, United States minister to London during the American Civil War.

CorrespondenceAmerican lettersAdams familyUnited states, history, 1783-1809United states, genealogy