record number: 100848

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Dates:

12 June 1799

Original paper slip text:12 June 1799.

Author's location:

Quincy, MA

Original paper slip text:Quincy

Author:

Abigail Smith Adams

Original paper slip text:AA

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Recipient:

Sarah Wentworth Apthorp Morton

Original paper slip text:Sarah Wentworth Morton

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Length:

1p.

Notes:

Accessioned from The Collections of The Henry Ford, 10/22/2020 - AMN 10/22/2020
Parke-Bernet Gall., N.Y., Sale No. 1190 (Oliver R. Barrett), 30–31 Oct. 1950, lot 4. $22.00
"Upon the purity, honour and chastity of the female character depend the morals, the virtues, the religion and independence of our country; as well as the domestic felicity ...."
LCF, 30 Oct. 1957
ALS sold, Stan. V. Henkels [sale conducted for Thomas Birch's Sons, Phila.], 6–7 Dec. 1892 (Estate of J. C. McGuire), lot 145; purchased by a Mr. Perkins for $11.00
On the subject of the intended dedication of one of her writings.
"I received yesterday, by Mr. Morton, your polite request of dedicating to me what you are pleas'd to call ‘one of your favorite children.' Portrayed as it is by your pen, I cannot but receive, and foster it, with particular regard. The very flattering manner in which you have introduced it to me merits my acknowledgment. If, in the two most important characters of female life, I have been so happy as to discharge the duties of them in such a manner as to merit the approbation of the good and the virtuous, it will be a sufficient Eulogy to me. Upon the purity, honour and chastity of the female character, depend the morals, the virtue, the religion and independence of our country, as well as its domestic felicity, and the elegant pen of Mrs. Morton cannot be more beneficially employ'd than in inculcating and celebrating those virtues; which, whilst they do honour to her sex, are fully exemplified in her own conduct; and will shed upon her character more unfading Laurels than the distinguished literary and poetical talents which she so eminently possesses."
Beautiful specimen, with full signature.
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