This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 edition. Excerpt: ... My children, I hope, will once at length disco/er that they have a father who is not unmindful of their welfare. They have had too much reason to think themselves forgotten, although I know that an anxiety for their happiness has corroded me every day of my life. With a tenderness which words cannot express, I am theirs and yours forever. 284. John Adams. Paris, 18 February, 178*. My Dearest Friend, -- The peace,1 which sets the rest of the world at ease, increases, I think, my perplexities and anxiety. I have written to Congress a resignation, but I foresee there will not be a speedy decision upon it, and I shall be left in a state of suspense that will be intolerable. Foreseeing this, I am determined not to wait for an acceptance of my resignation, but to come home without it, provided it does not arrive in a reasonable time. Don't think, therefore of coming to Europe. If you do, we shall cross each other, and I shall arrive in America about the same time that you may arrive in Europe. I shall certainly return home in the spring. With or without leave, resignation accepted or not, home I will come, so you have nothing to do but wait to receive your old friend J. Adams. 1 The preliminary articles between the three parties, Great Britain, France, and the United States, were signed at Paris on the 28th of January, 1788. Hence this may be considered as the close of the great struggle of the Kevolu ' INDEX. Act, limiting prices, 239, 243, 262, 807. let, Tender, repeal of, 390. Adams, Abigail. Illness of, 1. Ap- prehensions of war, 25, xviii. Read Rollin's Ancient History, 25. Visit to Colonel Quincy's, 34. Visit to her brother, 41. Visit to Boston Garrison, 41. Opinion of slavery, 41. Portia, assumed name of, 53. Hospitality to soldiers, ..