14 Nov. 1793
Original paper slip text:14 Nov. 1793.
Quincy, MA
Original paper slip text:Quincy MA
2 p.
- New accession. --SEG, 2/15/2012
- ALS offered for sale, James F. Drake, #40, 1910, item 127, partial text.
- ALS offered for sale, 15 Nov. 1889, Libbie, lot 832.
- ". . . Providence by abandoning the Powers of Europe to the blind Dominations of their Passions, is working out for Us, I hope, that Safety which I despaired of enjoying so long, When I left that Quarter of the World. While they are exhausted I hope We may be Safe. But it may not be many years before the impatience of our own People may involve them in Quarrells as exhausting as those of Europe, I am a devout Churchman in one Point, "Give Us Peace in our Day." The present unnatural Combinations of England with Spain, gives me sometimes so much jealousy that, if I could in Conscience, I should be disposed to go all Lengths with the Rulers in France. . . . "
- Information transferred from multiple blue slips now deleted. ER 9/14/2015 - AMN 5/7/18
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