record number: 081697

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Dates:

( noDate conjectural )

1797 to 1803

Original paper slip text:n.d. [1797–1803?]

Author:

John Quincy Adams

Original paper slip text:JQA

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and

William Vans Murray

Original paper slip text:William Vans Murray.

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Title:

Cipher (lock and key system, with sliding paper strip attached)

Length:

2 p. (in JQA’s hand)

Document Type:

JQA—Ciphers

Notes:

Endorsed [at upper left:] "V.M."; [on sliding paper strip:] "W.V.M."; [on verso:] "Cypher. W. V. Murray."
Note by Lyon Phelps: Bound as XCVI.251, at end of William Vans Murray’s letters to JQA (#96), 9 June 1797–10 Nov. 1803.

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Adams Papers microfilm: reel 602. TS Ciphers JQA

Original held by:

Massachusetts Historical Society

From the collection: Adams Family Papers

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