record number: 161325

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Dates:

24 Oct. 1816

Original paper slip text:24 Oct. 1816.

Author's location:

Quincy

Original paper slip text:Quincy

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Author:

Abigail Smith Adams

Original paper slip text:AA

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Recipient:

Dolley Payne Todd Madison

Original paper slip text:Dolley Madison

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Length:

3 p.

Notes:

Corrected institutional code from NHi to NN Gilder Lehrman.- GKF, 2/4/26
[Previously on deposit at NHi, NNPM]
A draft of this letter exists at 23 Oct., for which see slip ID
161315
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Sold, ($425), Charles Hamilton Sale 14, 22 Sept. 1966, item 6.
ALS offered for sale, Goodspeed's, #293, Jan. 1938, item 1, listing only.
Sold, Carnegie Book Shop, #49 [1936], Item 715, abstract
ALS sold, American Art Gall., N.Y., (Estate of F. B. McGuire), 26 Feb. 1917, lot 1.
"I have heard my Friend frequently mention the circumstance, communicated to him by Mr. Stodart, tho not until it was out of his power to comply with it, and with sincere regret that it was so—for beside the high personal regard which he has always entertained for Mr. Madison, he was known how to appreciate his publick Services—Services which diminish the Epithat ‘of first in war, first in Peace,' and leave to him, as many of the Hearts of the people . . ."
Information transferred from multiple blue slips now deleted. ER 3/15/2016

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