Abigail Adams' "Remember the Ladies" Letter (1776) On March 31, 1776, Abigail Adams wrote a letter to her husband, John Adams, who was serving as the Massachusetts representative to the Continental Congress in Philadelphia. She told him that she wanted him to please "remember the ladies" in the "new code of laws." She wrote, “I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember
in time for our country to go through. The letters between John and Abigail Adams indicate all that strife and more. Abigail Adams writes to John Adams speaking of her want of him to be there for her and the children. She tells him of how even though he had only been gone a short while, “It seems already a moth since you left me.” (Adams, 626) Abigail Adams does miss her husband and does show the hardship she feels. Abigail Adams feels stronger in regards to the struggles faced by the country and
Abigail and John Adams wrote over 1,100 letters to one another, which began at the beginning of their relationship which was in 1762 and ending in 1801, which is when John’s occupation as a politician ended. These sincere and highly informative letters include John's portrayal of the Continental Congress and what he thought about Europe while he served in his many political roles during the time, as well as Abigail’s writings to inform John about their family, homestead, and information about the