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Dates:

31 Mar. 1808

Original paper slip text:31 March 1808.

Author's location:

Washington,

Original paper slip text:Washington

Author:

John Quincy Adams

Original paper slip text:JQA

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Recipient:

Harrison Gray Otis

Original paper slip text:to Harrison Gray Otis

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, "Letter ... on the present State of our national affairs, with Remarks upon

Timothy Pickering

Original paper slip text:Mr. Pickering's

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letter to the Governor of the Commonwealth

James Sullivan

Original paper slip text:[James Sullivan]

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." Holograph fair copy in JQA's hand.

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Length:

15 p.

Notes:

MBAt shelfmark: $EB5G8+A
Note: For the numerous printings of this work, see Adams Bibliography under JQA, A Letter to the Hon. Harrison Gray Otis ..., Boston, 1808, &c.
Several editions are in Adams Pamphlet File.
The MS was presumably sent to William Smith Shaw who in turn gave it to the printer. Later it came to the Athenaeum in Shaw's effects. See JQA, Writings, 3:190 note.
See Adams Bibliography under JQA, Individual Works, Letter to the Hon. Harrison Gray Otis ..., 1808, and A Letter to Mr. Harrison Gray ..., 1824.
EEB, 10 Oct. 1957
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JQA Writings

Original paper slip text:Printed: JQA, Writings (with Appendix 27 July 1824), 3:189–232

Full citation:

Writings of John Quincy Adams, ed. Worthington Chauncey Ford, New York, 1913–1917
7 vols.

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