My Dearest Friend, Letters of Abigail and John Adams

This soft cover book, edited by Margaret Hogan and C. James Taylor of the Adams Papers at the Massachusetts Historical Society, shares the letters and correspondence that John and Abigail Adams had from their early courtship, thru marriage and 40 years of their lives together. It provides a wonderfully vivid account of the momentous era they lived though, underscoring the chaotic, often improvisatory circumstances that attended the birth of a fledgling nation and the hardships of daily life.