Awhile back, Bob and I were doing a lot of reading about the founding fathers. Guys like George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Gouverner Morris. But our favorite was John Adams. If you're into history and biography, you should get a copy of David McCollough's John Adams. This is what historical biography should be like.

Adams was a prolific letter writer. And just yesterday, I noticed that the Massachusetts Historical Society's Adams Family Papers site has made the correspondence between John Adams and his wife Abigail public.

There are images of the letters as well as transcriptions. Letters from John to Abigail and from Abigail to John are there.

One letter (from Oct. 4 1762, during the Adams' courtship, apparently) gives some insight into the sort of guy that Adams could be.