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Dates:

6 Aug. 1810

Original paper slip text:6 August 1810.

Author's location:

Quincy, MA

Original paper slip text:Quincy

Author:

John Adams

Original paper slip text:JA

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Recipient:

Benjamin Homans

Original paper slip text:to Messrs. Homans

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Joseph Emerson Smith

Original paper slip text:Smith

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and

William Blagrove

Original paper slip text:Blagrove

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, Committee

Title:

Length:

1p.

Notes:

* ALS offered for sale by Bangs [McKay 3204], 18 May 1885, item 1.
* ADAMS (JOHN, President of the U.S.). A. L. S. Quincy, Aug. 6, 1810. To Messrs. Homans, Smith and Blagrove, Committee; thanking them for the present of an Oration by "our ingenious young Friend Mr. Lincoln." 1 page, 4to. With duplicate Signature on verso.
"His Grand Father was one of my habitual Social Friends in the ancient
Whigs of Boston
Original paper slip text:Whig Clubb in The Town of Boston
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, where, as Tradition Says and History perhaps ought to Say, The Independence of America originated."
* ALS sold, Parke-Bernet, N.Y. (G. Kane Sale), 4 Dec. 1945, lot 1, $115.00.

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From the collection: Gilder Lehrman

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