22 Oct. 1840
Original paper slip text:22 Oct. 1840.
Quincy
Original paper slip text:Quincy
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- ALS sold, Parke-Bernet, N.Y. (American Autograph Shop, pt. 2), 4–5 Dec. 1944, lot 5; $22.00.
- ALS offered for sale - Parke-Bernet - Sale No. 2030 - 11 April 1961.
- 1961
- 3. ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY. A.L.s., 2 pp., 4to, Quincy, Mass., Oct. 22, 1840. To "Mrs. Henrietta M. Dawson, Greeneborough, Georgia."
- An expressive and well written letter to the wife of william c. dawson, a representative in congress from georgia. States he is sending a copy of the published letters of his mother.
- "During the late unpleasant session of Congress one or two of my younger friends in the House, perceiving me perhaps in something like the temper of mind of Hamlet in the play when he said that he must be idle, stimulated me to write some trifle in verse for the amusement of their favorite female friends, and one or two of them accidently fell under the eye of your best friend, who in kindness to me, insisted that I invoke the muse for a blossom from the foot of Parnassus to present as a posy to you . . . With this letter I have taken the liberty of addressing to Mr. Dawson a small volume recently published, of letters of my mother . . . A large portion of them were written in the heat of our Revolutionary War . . ."
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