![]() ![]() In fact, the Adams took decisive steps to ensure their letters would be preserved. ![]() "He was writing these letters as much to you and I at this moment in time, 200 years later." "But he actually meant us," Ellis tells NPR's Neal Conan. Viewing each other as intellectual equals, the two exchanged more than 1,000 letters over the course of their relationship and, according to Ellis, intended for their correspondence to stand as a record of their lives for posterity - though John Adams insisted the letters were meant for his own family. Historian and author Joseph Ellis' First Family draws from decades of correspondence between John Adams and his wife, Abigail, to reveal the achievements of America's second president, and the sacrifice and influence of his first lady. An original letter, from John Adams to his future wife Abigail begins, "Miss Adorable." ![]()
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