record number: 061161

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Dates:

28 Apr. 1790

Original paper slip text:28 April 1790.

Author's location:

Newburyport,

Original paper slip text:Newbury Port

Author:

John Quincy Adams

Original paper slip text:JQA

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Recipient:

Cotton Tufts

Original paper slip text:Cotton Tufts

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Title:

Length:

2 p.

Notes:

Note title change from Schaffner Collection to Joseph Halle Schaffner Autograph Coll. per GKF and SEG, 3/8/2017
Schaffner Collection
ALs sold, Parke-Bernet, 8 October 1963, $250.
ALS offered for sale, Goodspeed's, #75, Jan. 1910, item 8, $7.50.
3. ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY. A.L.s., "J. Q. Adams," 1 p., 8vo, Newbury Port, 28 April 1790. To an unnamed correspondent. Neat repair with clear tape. Written when Adams was but twenty-three and still a law student of Theophilus Parsons at Newburyport. In this fine letter he informs his correspondent of his plans to set up a law office in Boston. His father has offered him "the best room in my house" and Adams quotes extensively from his father's letter on this subject. He gives reasons for believing that he should not take this room, however. He has written to his brother at Cambridge "requesting him to take the necessary steps to procure my master's degree; without putting me to the trouble of going to Cambridge myself." He also requests his correspondent to send him twelve or fifteen pounds to pay his present debts. He has "been obliged to borrow £3 to pay my last month's board. This however is altogether my own fault."
Information transferred from blue slip now deleted. ER 9/14/2015

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Harvard College Library

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