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Dates:

20 May 1786

Original paper slip text:20 May 1786.

Author's location:

London, England

Original paper slip text:Grosvenor Square

Author:

John Adams

Original paper slip text:JA

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Recipient:

Philip Mazzei

Original paper slip text:Philip Mazzei

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Length:

3 p.

Notes:

Facsimile printed in The Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress, 24:262 (Oct. 1967)—on the occasion of the acquisition of the letter by the library's Manuscript Division.
RC offered for sale, 31 May 1966, Charles Hamilton Auction Cat. 13, item 3 ($375).
ALS sold (in association with a receipt written by JQA and signed by AA, 27 June 1809), American Art, N.Y. (A. C. Meyer, pt. 1), 12–13 Jan. 1938, lot 1. $75.00.
ALS sold, American Art, N.Y. (Shillaber Sale), 8–9 April 1926, lot 1, $90.00.
Information transferred from blue slip now deleted. ER 9/1/2015

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From the collection: Philip Mazzei Papers

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Mazzei, Writings

Original paper slip text:Mazzei, Writings

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Philip Mazzei: Selected Writings and Correspondence, ed. Margherita Marchione and others, Prato, Italy, 1983
3 vols.

, p. 523-524

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PJA, 18:298–300

Papers of John Adams, volume 18, page 298

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