record number: 201510

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Dates:

3 Oct. 1820

Original paper slip text:3 Oct. 1820.

Author's location:

Montezillo

Original paper slip text:Montezillo

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Author:

John Adams

Original paper slip text:JA

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Recipient:

Jonathan Mason

Original paper slip text:Jonathan Mason

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Length:

1 p. (fragment)

Notes:

Inscription on back: "Letter Book of John Adams"
Advertised for sale by Herman Darvick Autograph Auctions 8 June 1989, in AB Bookman's Weekly, 83: (May 22, 1989) 2274.
"All this Corruption as young as I was, I attributed to the King of Great Britain and his Governor and their Bigoted Episcopal party and young as I was, I was thoroughly disgusted before I was ten years of Age."
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