ABSTRACT
Quincy, a "discrete house ... such as you would not blush to see the foreign minister in."5
While Abigail protested that she was much too republican to be impressed by titles, she was aware that the neighborhood could claim some distinction. 6 Lord North was a neighbor, though she pointed out that at Grosvenor Square they still lived "opposite to him." Lord Carmarthan, the British foreign minister, lived "about five houses from us." Further there were the Duke of Dorset and the Duchess of Bedford. Young Abigail described Lady Lincoln's "parlor window making one side of the Square and our drawing room window the other." Thus the Adamses and Lady Lincoln "have a chance of looking at each other-an opportunity we each have already taken advantage of-she peeps at us-and we cannot do less you know than return the compliment."7
