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Abigail Adams- Letterspresents 450 texts-including more than a hundred published here for the first time-chosen and annotated by acclaimed Adams biographer Edith Gelles.

About the Author

Edith Gelles, editor, is Senior Scholar at Stanford'sMichelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Researchand the author of Abigail & John- Portrait of a Marriageas well as the biographies Abigail Adams- AWriting Life and Portia- The World of Abigail Adams.