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Dates:

( conjectural ) post

24 Mar. 1808

Original paper slip text:24 March 1808

Author:

Abigail Smith Adams

Original paper slip text:AA

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Recipient:

Hannah Phillips Cushing

Original paper slip text:Hannah Cushing

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Title:

Length:

4 p.

Notes:

Filmed at [March 1808].
Dating changed from [ca. March 1808], slip 112595, to [ca. 27 March – 2 April], slip no. 431005, in 2015. Date revised based on William Steuben Smith’s departure from Quincy on 24 March (AA to AA2, 27 March 1808, slip no. 112583). - HPW, SM 3/22/2023
Previously dated ca. March 1808 and filmed at that date. Archival Note: Written between 27 March and 2 April; acknowledging Hannah Cushing's letter of 17 March 1808. Dated by the reference to the departure of William Steuben Smith (p.3) to "visit his parents." He left Thursday 24 March (see AA to AA2, dated 27 March 1808,
112583
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). This letter is presumably the one acknowledged by Mrs Cushing on 11 May 1808 (
112638
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). Entered by ER 11/23/2015

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Adams Papers microfilm: reel 405

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Massachusetts Historical Society

From the collection: Adams Family Papers

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