record number: 010734

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Dates:

( conjectural )

2 Dec. 1772

Original paper slip text:[2 Dec. 1772]

( conjectural )

Apr. 1773

Original paper slip text:[April 1773]

Author:

Benjamin Franklin

Original paper slip text:Benjamin Franklin

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Recipient:

Thomas Cushing

Original paper slip text:Thomas Cushing

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Thomas Hutchinson

Original paper slip text:Thomas Hutchinson

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Thomas Whately

Original paper slip text:Thomas Whately(?)

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, 20 Jan. 1769

Title:

Length:

7 p. (copies in JA's hand, made in April 1773)

Notes:

Hutchinson's LbC is in Mass. Archives, 26:338–339. See Bancroft, Hist., 6:437; Franklin, ed. Smyth, 6:265–268; Van Doren, Franklin, p. 443–444, 458 ff.
Hutchinson's letter printed (excerpt): D/JA, 2:80.
The letter was copied by JA in April 1773, and was filmed and is filed under that date.
Information transferred from goldenrod slip now deleted. ER 5/6/2016

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Adams Papers microfilm: reel 344

Original held by:

Massachusetts Historical Society

From the collection: Adams Family Papers

Printed :

JA Works

Original paper slip text:Printed: JA, Works, 1:647–648 (Franklin's letter only).

Full citation:

The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: with a Life of the Author, ed. Charles Francis Adams, Boston, 1850–1856
10 vols.

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