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Dates:

21 June 1775

Original paper slip text:21 June 1775.

Author's location:

Philadelphia,

Original paper slip text:Philadelphia

Author:

John Adams

Original paper slip text:JA

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Recipient:

James Warren

Original paper slip text:to James Warren

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Title:

Length:

2 p.

Notes:

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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Printed: JA, Papers, 3:43

Papers of John Adams, volume 03, page 43

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Letters of Delegates

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)

Full citation:

Letters of Delegates to Congress, 1774–1789, ed. Paul H. Smith and others, Washington, D.C., 1976–2000
26 vols.

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