record number: 011881

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Dates:

16 May 1776

Original paper slip text:16 May 1776

Author:

John Adams

Original paper slip text:JA

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Recipient:

Joseph Ward

Original paper slip text:to [Joseph Ward]

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Length:

3 p.

Notes:

Hoar Autograph Collection
Recipient identified as Joseph Palmer, but letter of 29 May indicates that recipient was Joseph Ward.
Accession 11573 from printed source New York Review. --SEG. 2/21/13
Offered for sale, Wm. E. Benjamin, #60 (April 1894), p. 18.
Information transferred from blue slip now deleted. ER 8/20/2015

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Massachusetts Historical Society

From the collection: Hoar Autograph Collection

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Printed :

Letters of Delegates

Original paper slip text:Printed: Letters of Delegates to Cong., 4:3–4. Recipient identified there as Joseph Palmer but letter of 29 May 1776 indicates recipient was Joseph Ward.

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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N.Y. Review

Original paper slip text:N.Y. Review

Full citation:

New-York Review and Athenaeum Magazine

, 2:446–447 (May 1826).;

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