Letters of Loss & Love: Judith Sargent Murray Papers, Letter Book 3

This is the second volume of Bonnie Hurd Smith's multi-year project to publish the letter books of the eighteenth-century essayist, poet, playwright, and women's rights advocate Judith Sargent Murray. This volume contains letters written during the years 1785 to 1789, when Judith Sargent Murray's first husband went bankrupt and died leaving her widowed and poor, when she married the Universalist preacher John Murray and met John and Abigail Adams during their honeymoon journey, and when she traveled to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, York, Maine, and parts of Rhode Island and Connecticut. Smith's first volume, 'The Letters I Left Behind: Judith Sargent Murry Papers, Letter Book 10,' is also available through Amazon.com. Two small collections of Murray's letters by Bonnie Hurd Smith, also available through Amazon.com, are 'Mingling Souls Upon Paper: An Eighteenth-century Love Story,' and 'From Gloucester to Philadelphia in 1790.'