record number: 251905

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Dates:

( conjectural )

27 Oct. 1825

Original paper slip text:27 [Oct.] 1825.

Author's location:

Roxbury,

Original paper slip text:Hermitage, Roxbury

Author:

Ward Nicholas Boylston

Original paper slip text:Ward Nicholas Boylston

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Recipient:

John Adams

Original paper slip text:to JA

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Title:

Length:

2 p.

Notes:

Letter bears date "27 March 1825" and it was filmed at that date. Date changed to 27 [Oct.] 1825 by SM and MF 1/28/1969. Input by ER 11/12/2015
Archival Notes: Evidence to support this change: (1) reference to JA's "approaching birthday" i.e. 30 October; (2) reference to two incomplete pictures being painted by Stuart, which are clearly those of JQA and LCA which Stuart had begun during JQA's stay in Boston early in Oct. 1825 (see Boylston to JQA, 4 Oct. 1825,
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); (3) reference to "pantaloons" which relates this letter to others on the same subject such as JQA to Boylston, 8 Nov. 1825 (
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) and Boylston to JQA, 22 Dec. 1825 (
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); (4) Boylston returned to his Roxbury home from Princeton between JQA's visit to him at Princeton, 15-17 Oct. 1825 (DJQA, those dates), and JQA's letter to him at Roxbury, 8 Nov. 1825 (
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); (5) In 1825, 27 Oct. fell on a Thursday, which was the weekday on which this letter was written. Entered by ER 11/24/2015

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Adams Papers microfilm: reel 468

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Massachusetts Historical Society

From the collection: Adams Family Papers

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