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14 Nov. 1839

Original paper slip text:14 Nov. 1839.

Boston, MA

Original paper slip text:Boston

John Quincy Adams

Original paper slip text:JQA.

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Lecture I (on the Smithsonian Bequest) [printed in
Christian Register

Original paper slip text:Christian Register and Boston Observer]

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27 p. (as cut and mounted from newspaper; see below)
JQA—Lectures and Orations
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  • MS lost. [Correction: Found 1966; see JQA. Two Lectures, 24 Nov. 1839, below.] This printed text is from the Christian Register and Boston Observer, 6 April 1840, p.[1], cols.1–5 (vol.19, no.14), continued in same, 11 April 1840, p.[1], cols. 1–5(vol.19, no. 15).
  • On the circumstances of delivery see note in Bemis, JQA, 2:510–511. "Lecture 2," never published, was delivered for JQA by Rev. Wm. P. Lunt; see MS in CDF under date of 20 Nov. 1839.
  • MHS has a file of Christian Register and Boston Observer.

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Printed :Printed in W.E. Washburn, ed., The Great Design ... Washington, 1965, p. 43–64.
Christian Register and Boston Observer

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