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Dates:

16 May 1800

Original paper slip text:16 May 1800.

Author's location:

Philadelphia,

Original paper slip text:Philadelphia

Author:

Abigail Smith Adams

Original paper slip text:AA

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Recipient:

Mary Smith Cranch

Original paper slip text:Mary Smith Cranch

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Length:

2 p. (plus transcript)

Notes:

ALs offered for sale, Paul C. Richards, Brookline, Mass., Cat. 2, item 3, $165.00.
"I have intended to have left this city to day, but the president having determined to visit Washington I could not think of taking the Coachman who has experience of his horses and is a sober good man, tho the president urged me to. I know he will be exposed to troops & cavalcades &c ... You will see and hear of some important changes in the Cabinet, which will make a great Sensation in many places I expect, but a cabinet should be united & harmonize, or like a house divided against itself it cannot Stand—great and weighty Subjects of vast importance both with England and France are before our Country..." quoted in Mary A. Benjamin to LHB, 2 June 1961
quote continues (from auction catalog) "—and require the best talents, and a unity of sentiment and action to conduct them with safety . . . Colds have been frequent here . . . we have had great rains also . . . As the President does not come with me I can make such arrangements when I get home as will answer for me."
3 ADAMS, Abigail. Wife of President John Adams. A.L.S., one and one-half pages, quarto, Philadelphia, May 16, 1800. To her Sister. $165.00
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