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15 Jan. 1783

Original paper slip text:15 Jan. 1783.

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John Adams

Original paper slip text:JA

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Gabriel Bonnot de Mably

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7 p.

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Adams Papers microfilm: reel 108
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Massachusetts Historical Society

From the collection: Letterbook copy, Adams Family Papers

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PJA, 14:172-180
Papers of John Adams, volume 14, page 172

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JA Works

Original paper slip text:Printed: JA, Works, 5:491–496, with headnote explaining the circumstances. The letter (erroneously dated 1782) and note were first printed as a postcript to JA's Defence..., 1 (1787) (text of letter in French) and were reprinted (letter again dated 1782, but in English) in North Amer. Rev., 4:51–56 (Nov. 1816), with related material.

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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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Printed: La révolution française revue d'histoire moderne et contemporaine, 70:555-562 (Nov. 1917) (as date 1782 in French translation);

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