record number: 060899

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Dates:

( conjectural )

Sep. 1789

Original paper slip text:[Sept. 1789]

Author:

John Quincy Adams

Original paper slip text:JQA.

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Title:

Poem: "A Solution of the Rebus, Hos Corydon, illos referebat in ordine Thyrsis" ("Had Harriet liv'd, when Paris gave the Ball...") signed "Thyrsis"; spells out

Harriet Bradbury

Original paper slip text:Harriet Bradbury

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Length:

3 p.

Document Type:

JQA—Poems, Hymns, Prayers, &c.

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Notes:

Rebus being solved is given above, "Rebus Mass. Mag: September 1789" ("The Beauteous pride of Greece, but woe of Troy") signed "Corydon"

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Adams Papers microfilm: reel 223

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Massachusetts Historical Society

From the collection: Adams Family Papers

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