The color yellow indicates documents held in other manuscript collections at the MHS, public and private repositories, or the collections of private owners.
See also facsimile, followed by full printed text of letter, in Smith & Watson, American Historical and Literary Curiosities, (1st edn., No. 1], 1847, plate 5; 5th edn. 1852, plate 5; 6th edn., New York, 1861, plate 7.
"In the possession of John F. Watson."
Information transferred from multiple blue slips now deleted. ER 3/11/2016