Original paper slip text:21 June 1775.
Original paper slip text:Philadelphia
- Misc. MSS, Adams
- KRS rev. 2 Jan. 1985
- A.L.S. offered for sale, Dodd, Mead & Co., #55, Dec. 1899, item 2.
- 2 ADAMS (John). President, Signer of the Declaration, etc. A. L. S. I page, 4to, Philadelphia, June 21, 1875.
- With 2 portraits. $20.00
- *Fine historical specimen, relating to the appointment of Generals in the Continental Army, then organizing, etc.
- "I expect, our people when they come to know the Pay of the General officers and others, with grumble.—Adams, Paine and I fought against it totis Viribus—but in vain. It is amazingly high,—but the Southern Geniuses think it vastly too low."
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Original paper slip text:PRINTED: Paul M. Smith ed., Letters of Delegates to Congress 1:529 under heading "JA to Cotton Tufts" Comparison of docketings indicates that Warren, not Tufts, was the recipient. So noted to editors of the Letters of Delegates 2 Jan. 1985 (see Corresp. File under project name)
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Letters of Delegates to Congress, 1774–1789, ed. Paul H. Smith and others, Washington, D.C., 1976–2000
26 vols.
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