Over 4 decades later she wrote letters to him and her children, relatives and friends. As a writer she chose form most natural eighteenth century woman. Letter Writing was not only a way of communicating but also a mode of self - definition. Abigail loved literature, history and political philosophy. She had a lack of training, phonetic spelling, and faulty grammar. She wrote to her husband in 1775, “My pen is always freer than my tongue.” Her letters reveal Abigail’s roles as a wife, parent, and friend. They also reveal her domestic, social activities, opinions, and observations. They also convey her love for politics. In 1776 she wrote to Mercy Warren, “Our country is as it were a Secondary God, and the first and greatest parent.” Her wartime correspondence with her husband combined personal messages, local news, and political commentary. In March 1776, she complained about the legal subjection of married woman. When she was older, Abigail was still a strong partisan of John Adams and a staunch supporter of her successful son, John Quincy Adams, who got elected president in 1824. Then in 1840, her grandson Charles Francis Adams published 114 of her