ADDITIONAL READING

The best picture of Abigail Adams is given in her letters, and many of them have been published. Collections include Stewart Mitchell (ed.), New Letters of Abigail Adams, 1788-1801 (1947, reprinted 1973); L.H.Butterfield et al. (eds.), Adams Family Correspondence, 6 vol., (1963-93); and L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlander, and Jo Kline (eds.), The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784 (1975, reissued 1997).Biographies include Edith B. Gelles, Portia: The World of Abigail Adams (1992, reissued 1995), focusing on the people whom she influenced and who influenced her; and Phyllis Lee Levin, Abigail Adams (1987). A concise version of the latter is Phyllis Lee Levin, "Abigail (Smith) Adams," in Lewis L. Gould (ed.), American First Ladies (1996), pp. 16-44. Betty Boyd Caroli