Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1840, by CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. TILDEN LIBRARY 1895 CAMBRIDGE: FOLSOM, WELLS, AND THURSTON, PRINTERS TO THE UNIVERSITY. To Mrs. H. Lincoln. 5 October. Accepts the offer to Page xxi 3 1764. To John Adams. 16 April. Pleasure in writing. Ques- tions about his health. 7 13 To the same. 19 August. Time tedious in his absence. Page Mr. Thaxter teaches her son. Morals of children. Popular feeling in Taunton 18 the town. Negro conspiracy To the same. 23 To the same. 22 September. Visit to Boston. State of 16 October. Desires his return. Fears 1775. To the same. 4 May. Affairs at home. Hutchinson's olina. Distress of Boston To the same. 24 May. Alarm in Braintree. British To the same. 15 June. Arrival of British recruits. Ap- To the same. 18-20 June. Action on Bunker's Hill. Death of Dr. Warren To the same. 22 June. Answers inquiries. Dr. Tufts. To the same. of Boston. Not afraid. State Scarcity of grain. 47 59 50 To the same. 25 July. Boston lighthouse burnt by a party To the same. 31 July-2 August. Page Inveighs against Britain. Treatment of Dr. Warren's remains. British To the same. 63 67 1 October. Death of her mother. In To the same. 22 October. Describes her mother's To the same. 12 November. Renounces attachment to To the same. 27 November. Regrets his prolonged To the same. 10 December. Visits the American 1776. To the same. To the same. 7-11 April. British troops removed. To the same. 7-9 May. Neglect of preparations for de- the brig Defence. Account of the capture of two Page . 100 transports. Confidence in the future 105 1777. Bad news from the north. 107 To the same. 30-31 July. To the same. 25 October. General Burgoyne's surren- 110 113 114 1778. To the same. 8 March. Rumor of Dr. Franklin's assas- . . 116 To the same. 18 May. Anxious for intelligence of him. To John Adams. 30 June. Receipt of his first letter 1779. To the same. 20 March - 23 April. Letters intercepted. 122 125 129 132 |