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Dates:

( circa conjectural )

29 Apr. 1809

Original paper slip text:29 April [1809]

Author:

Abigail Smith Adams

Original paper slip text:AA

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Recipient:

[

John Quincy Adams

Original paper slip text:JQA]

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Title:

Length:

2 p.

Notes:

Original currently boxed in cage in E187 Letters Removed from other collections, Box 1
Year confirmed by JA to JQA, 29 April 1809, and, as noted on slip, by JQA, Diary, 29 April 1809. HPW, MSL 4/4/2023
ALs offered for sale, The Collector (May 1949), item I 894. $25.
ALS offered for sale, The Collector, July 1947, p. 160, Item A 1200, $25.00.
New accession; N.B. slips
422316
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. Possibly addressed to TBA but year of ms. is unclear. --SEG, 5/16/2013
The year may be 1809 based on an entry in JQA's diary of 29 April stating, "I found my brother return'd from Dedham, and well." This slip corrects errors on z'ed out slip #
430722
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. --NEM and SBS, 9/12/2013
I 894 ADAMS, Abigail (1744–1818). Wife of President John Adams and mother of President John Quincy Adams. A.L.S. ("Mother A Adams"), 1p. 4to, Apr. 29, n.y. To one of her sons. "Your Father is much disappointed in not being able to come to town today, and bringing you up with him. Your brother sent from dedham yesterday that he was sick, and desired to be sent for immediatly . . . Your Father wishes you to come out to day if you can get up." The initials "J.Q.A." as addressee, and the year "1811," have been added in another hand. Both of these annotations cannot be correct; for John Quincy Adams was at this time in Russia. $25.00
Information transferred from multiple blue slips now deleted. ER 10/13/2015

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