record number: 010467

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Dates:

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18 May 1767

Original paper slip text:[18] May 1767.

Author's location:

Plymouth,

Original paper slip text:Plymouth

Author:

John Adams

Original paper slip text:JA

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Recipient:

Abigail Smith Adams

Original paper slip text:to AA

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Title:

Length:

1 p.

Notes:

See JA, Diary, 1:335–37
MS says "Monday," so must be 18 May (or 4, 11, or 25 May) - RAR 4 Apr. 1990
ALS given to Boston University in 1980 by Paul Richards.
ALS offered for sale, Paul C. Richards, Catalogue 44 (1969), Item 113; $1500.
ALS, offered for sale, Goodspeed's Flying Quill, Sept–Oct, 1954, item 1, $125.00. A.L.S., one full page. Plymouth, 1767. A very early letter, and a fine example of his correspondence while away from home to Abigail Adams. The letter opens, "Mr. Trowbridge and his Lady Mr. Otis and his son and Mr. Winthrop will probably dine with you next Saturday—I have had an agreeable tour to Barnstable, whence I returned Saturday and kept Sabbath in this town. Cotton has got his case, seven pounds damages, and his town has chosen his representative—Col. Otis is chosen from Barnstable . . ." etc.
ALS offered for sale. Emily Driscoll, #9, 1949, item 1; and again in Nov. 1952, #14, item 1.
"Acessioned" from printed copy and formerly listed as "Ac 25247." --SEG, 10/14/2011
Information transferred from blue slips now deleted. ER 8/17/2015

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