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Actually, she was writing to her son John Quincy Adams (not to a daughter); it was 1800, and she explained to him how cold and uncomfortable she was in her new surroundings-- she had just moved to the White House, but there was not enough wood for all the fireplaces yet. In fact, the White House was still being finished at that time, and she was living there before it was really ready for her use. Abigail Adams was a frequent letter-writer (it was an era before telephones, telegraph, radio, etc), and she expressed her emotions in letters the way you and I would express them in an e-mail or by talking on the phone to someone.

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