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Dates:

14 May 1821

Original paper slip text:14 May 1821

Author:

John Adams

Original paper slip text:JA

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Recipient:

Richard Rush

Original paper slip text:to Richard Rush

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Length:

2 p.

Notes:

In Eisenhower Museum, given by A. Conger Goodyear of New York.
We have LbC: Lb/JA/5349.
ALS offered for sale, Carnegie Book Shop, #125 [1947], item 2.$120
Parke-Bernet Gall., N.Y., 16–17 Nov. 1938 (W. R. Hearst, pt. 1), lot 285, $70.00
ALS sold, American Art Assoc., N.Y., 21–22 Jan. 1926 (Turner & Munn sale), lot 369, $130.00
To Richard Rush, with his docket on the verso, reading, "A striking letter on forming political Constitutions. He says that while the U.S. Senate have a negative on all appointments to office, we can never have a national President; he must be the President (not to say tool) of a Party."Adams states, in part: "In the course of forty years I have been called to assist in the formation of a Constitution for thes(e) States. This kind of Architecture I find is an Art or Mistery (sic) very difficult to learn and still harder to practice. The Attention of Mankind at large seems no to be drawn to this interesting Subject. It gives me more solicitude than at my age it ought to do. For nothing remains for me but Submission and Resignation..."
Information transferred from multiple blue slips now deleted. ER 3/29/2016

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