record number: 111808

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Dates:

3 Sep. 1805

Original paper slip text:3 Sept. 1805.

Author's location:

New York, NY

Original paper slip text:New York

Author:

William Stephens Smith

Original paper slip text:WSS

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Recipient:

Abigail Adams Smith

Original paper slip text:AA2, with note on cover by AA

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Title:

Length:

2 p.

Notes:

William Stephens Smith Coll.
Letter at NHi misidentified as JA to WSS because of WSS’s address/cover.
ALS offered for sale, Charles De F. Burns, undated catalogue (starts item 1398), item 2295, $2.50. 2295 Smith,
William S. Aide to Washington: President N.Y. State Society of the Cincinnati.A. L. S. I p. 4to. 1805. "There are nine English Battleships arrived in the River St. John's for the purpose of taking the Floridas—the Spaniards are in great consternation," etc.
To John Adams..... 2 50ALS offered for sale, Dodd, Mead & Co., #33, 1893, p. 42, abstr. Microfilm of cat. at MWA.
Information transferred from blue slip now deleted. ER 9/28/2015

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The New York Historical Society

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Printed :

Roof Lady

Original paper slip text:Printed (in part): Roof, Colonel Wm. Smith and Lady, p. 262–263. [Plus facsimile]

Full citation:

Katharine Metcalf Roof, Colonel William Smith and Lady: The Romance of Washington’s Aide and Young Abigail Adams, Boston, 1929.

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