record number: 010123

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Dates:

( conjectural )

1755 to 1756

Original paper slip text:[1755–1756?]

Author:

John Adams

Original paper slip text:JA.

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Title:

Copy of an essay [on the imagination and works of art], preceded by a quotation from Lucretius; possibly from the Spectator?

Length:

18 p.

Document Type:

JA—Literary Exercises, Translations &c.

Notes:

Headed: "No. 411 [whole number of a newspaper or periodical? or number of a collection of essays?]. Saturday, June 21 [1755?]," with the date "13 April 1756" at the end.
Begins: "Our Sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our Senses."

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Adams Papers microfilm: reel 187

Original held by:

Massachusetts Historical Society

From the collection: Adams Family Papers

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