Presidents and First Ladies Trivia

[David Lockmiller]

(01-20-2023 05:43 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  Abigail Adams wrote the following about a man:

"I found him social, but not talkative, and when he spoke something useful dropped from his tongue; he was grave, yet pleasant, and affable."

She was writing about whom? (not her husband)

Franklin, completely smitten with Madame Helvetius, made a huge mistake when he brought two of the most proper (and puritan) people in the world, John and Abigail Adams, to meet her. John was shocked at the total lack of morality in every detail of the commune. But Abigail was traumatized about Madame Helvetius herself, writing, “After dinner she threw herself upon a settee where she shew (an archaic spelling of show) more than her feet."

Abigail Adams to Lucy Cranch, Auteuil, September 5, 1784