 which is right before the American Revolution, just comes out a month before. Adams rushes it into print. She's really hesitant to have it published because she knows it's so incendiary. She also is aware, as some Americans may not have been yet, of the physical danger here, not only by what happened to her brother being beaten into senselessness by the British, but she ends up right in the middle of Lexington and Concord, in part because she's just trying to get some time alone with her husband.