record number: 010441

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Dates:

5 Jan. 1767

Original paper slip text:5 Jan. 1767.

Author's location:

Braintree,

Original paper slip text:Braintree

Author:

John Adams

Original paper slip text:JA

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Recipient:

Richard Cranch

Original paper slip text:to Richard Cranch

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Length:

3 p.

Notes:

A photocopy of this letter available at DLC: Edward Bennett Williams Papers. -GKF 1/26/17
Note: Omitted from Series II because it deals exclusively with a legal case involving Cranch and one Lambard. This is a lawyer's letter and will be omitted likewise from Series III.
On deposit at NHi, Gilder Lehrman Collection. --SEG, 11/11
ALS at NNPM (Gilder Lehrman Collection), Mar. 1996
ALs offered for sale by private owner, April 1976, Cat. no. 13, item 110, $1250.
ALs offered for sale by Southeby Parke Bernet, 25 November 1975, Sale no. 3813B, item 314, $1000.–$1500.
ALS offered for sale, Flying Quill, Mar–Apr 1957, #1.
"I have been oblidged to see Lombard once more after writing and speaking to him several times to no purpose. This day he comes and begs that I would not enter into the action and produced an account against you which I here enclose. If I should enter the action it will put the miserable animal to great charge, and as he cannot file his account against a Judgement of Court, he must be put to his action against you, which if he should recover just a trifle, would carry more cost than the debt is he demands. So that upon the whole I have decided to take his note to you, for the judgement of it, on interest, and to inclose his account to you, that you may consider of it and write me positive orders what to allow...If you determine not to allow any articles in his account, please to point out to me what those articles are, and it will be best for me to tender his what you will allow, that in case he should sue, you may have a chance to screen yourself...We are all well, and remain yours &c John Adams."
Additional digital copy of item added to Electronic Image Archive. ER 4/15/2016
Information transferred from blue slip now deleted. ER 4/15/2016

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