record number: 150455

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Dates:

14 Apr. 1815

Original paper slip text:14 April 1815.

Author's location:

Quincy, MA

Original paper slip text:Quincy

Author:

Abigail Smith Adams

Original paper slip text:AA

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Recipient:

Catherine Maria Frances Johnson Smith

Original paper slip text:Catherine Smith

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Title:

Length:

2 p.

Notes:

Corrected institutional code from NHi to NN Gilder Lehrman.- GKF, 2/4/26
[Previously on deposit at NHi, NNPM]
ALS offered for sale - Goodspeed's Book Shop - Catalogue No. 496 - Feb. 1961 - Item 4
ALS offered for sale, Goodspeed's Flying Quill. Jan–April 1959, item 2, $75.00.
ALS offered for sale - Parke-Bernet Gall., N.Y., 28 Jan. 1958, sale 1802, item 1.
"My dear Granddaughter. I will not let my dear boys leave me without taking a few lines to you. My heart and hands have been full, the parting with the children I feel as a weight upon my heart. Added to this I am called to weep over a dear beloved, only sister, suddenly taken from the world.... I thank you my dear Kitty for your letter, and long to see my great-granddaughter whom I learn you have named for my dear Caroline. I find from high authority that Mr. Smith will have it at his option to go to England as Secretary of Legation, or return to America ..."
Information transferred from multiple blue slips now deleted. ER 3/11/2016

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