16 May 1800
Original paper slip text:16 May 1800.
Philadelphia,
Original paper slip text:Philadelphia
2 p. (plus transcript)
- ALs offered for sale, Paul C. Richards, Brookline, Mass., Cat. 2, item 3, $165.00.
- "I have intended to have left this city to day, but the president having determined to visit Washington I could not think of taking the Coachman who has experience of his horses and is a sober good man, tho the president urged me to. I know he will be exposed to troops & cavalcades &c ... You will see and hear of some important changes in the Cabinet, which will make a great Sensation in many places I expect, but a cabinet should be united & harmonize, or like a house divided against itself it cannot Stand—great and weighty Subjects of vast importance both with England and France are before our Country..." quoted in Mary A. Benjamin to LHB, 2 June 1961
- quote continues (from auction catalog) "—and require the best talents, and a unity of sentiment and action to conduct them with safety . . . Colds have been frequent here . . . we have had great rains also . . . As the President does not come with me I can make such arrangements when I get home as will answer for me."
- 3 ADAMS, Abigail. Wife of President John Adams. A.L.S., one and one-half pages, quarto, Philadelphia, May 16, 1800. To her Sister. $165.00
- Information transferred from multiple blue slips now deleted. ER 9/28/2015
