18 June 1788
Original paper slip text:18 June 1788
: Answer to an address
3 p.
- Herbert Strauss Collection
- EnlPr of Facsimile (1 p. only), from Henkels, Phila., Catalogue No. 1372, 19 March 1925, lot 6. Formerly listed as "Ac. 8087" in accession folder --SEG, 10/14/2011
- Facsimile in DLC: JA Papers. --RFK, 3/13/2010
- ALS offered for sale, Ben Bloomfield, 65 University Place, New York 3, N. Y., List: DM-10, June 1959.
- "The kind and condescending Congratulations of so illustrious a Body as the Legislature of Massachusetts ON MY ARRIVAL WITH MY FAMILY, IN THIS MY NATIVE COUNTRY, DOES ME GREAT HONOUR ..... If the Dangers and Fatigues which have fallen to my share IN THE COURSE OF A MEMORABLE REVOLUTION, have contributed in any degree, to the acquisition or security of those inestimable Blessings of Independence and Peace ... which this favoured Nation now enjoys, the Reflexion on them will be a Source of Consolation to me to my latest Period ... " Handsomely signed in full, "JOHN ADAMS." At the bottom of the page is an official notation that the letter had been read in the Senate and was being sent down to be read in the House of Representatives. An exceptionally handsome item for framing or display. $195.00
- 22 Oct. 1957
- Sold, Parke-Bernet Gall., N.Y., Sale No. 1683, 22 May 1956 ("Helen Fahnestock Hubbard"), Lot 3 $120.00
- "The kind and condescending congratulations of so illustrious a Body as the Legislature of the Massachusetts, on my arrival with my family, in this my native country, does me a great honour...If the dangers and fatigues which have fallen to my share in the course of a memorable Revolution...." LCF, 16 Jan. 1957
- Information transferred from blue slips and second yellow slip now deleted. ER 9/3/2015
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From the collection: Herbert R. Strauss Collection (for other material in the Strauss Collection, ac'ned by the Adams Papers prior to Mr. Strauss' death in 1974, see Accessions Record - Personal under IC Strauss, H.R.)
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PJA, 19:311
Printed: Mass. Centinel (Boston), 21 June 1788, p. 1, col. 1, with the address to which it is an answer.;PJA, 19:311
Papers of John Adams, volume 19, page 311
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