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Dates:

5 Oct. 1775

Original paper slip text:5 Oct. 1775.

Author's location:

Philadelphia,

Original paper slip text:Philadelphia

Author:

John Adams

Original paper slip text:JA

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Recipient:

John Thomas

Original paper slip text:to John Thomas

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Length:

3 p.

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Congressional committee of Franklin, Lynch, and Harrison to visit Thomas and inspect his lines. LCF, 12 Jan. 1959
Presented to Richard M. Nixon by the Radio and Television Executives Society, Inc. on 14 Sept. 1955 in New York City. Now located in President's Conference room in Wardman Library.
ALS offered for sale, The Collector, Mar. 1948, p. 57, M450, $250.00.
Sold, Parke-Bernet Gall. N.Y. (Fortington, Olcott, et al. sale). 21 April 1947, lot 2, $100.00
A.L.S., 2pp, 4to, Philadelphia, Oct. 5, 1775. Slight repairs, a few words missing. To Brig. Gen. John Thomas at Roxbury. Magnificent letter on public affairs, written when he was a delegate to the Second Continental Congress, before the Colonies had declared their independence. After bespeaking Thomas's good offices toward a committee of Congress consisting of Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Lynch, and Benjamin Harrison, who wish to inspect the lines at Roxbury, he continues: ". . . I think the Unanimity of the Continent Strengthens every Day.—From England We hear of Nothing but ministerial Ill Will, Desperation, and Preparations for Revenge—With the Blessing of Heaven . . . I humbly hope and trust we shall, resist them with Success, certain Prejudices are propagated here by a few ill affected Persons in the City, that the Massachusetts Forces contain a great Number of Old Men, Boys and Negroes," etc. He closes by asking information concerning the qualifications of Henry Knox and a Mr. Waters, as engineers, for "there is at present a loud Cry for Engineers, both from the Camp and other Places," etc. $250.00
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