record number: 170754

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Dates:

June 1817

Original paper slip text:June 1817.

Author's location:

Quincy, MA

Original paper slip text:Quincy

Author:

John Adams

Original paper slip text:JA

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Recipient:

Hezekiah Niles

Original paper slip text:Hezekiah Niles

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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]
Perke-Bernet Galleries, Sale no. 2988, 17 February 1970, Item No. 111, property of C. Norton Owen - [The Collector, #4–6, 1970, D 162] extract below
ALS sold, American Art, N.Y. (Gable Sale), 3 Dec. 1923, lot 22, $50.00III.
Adams, John. Second President of the United States. A.L.s., 2 pp., 4to; Quincy, June, 1817. To [Hezekiah Niles]. Stained and repaired at folds, docketed and with a note in another hand on the second page. Tipped to the second page is a small oval engraved bust portrait of Adams. Matted and framed between glass, both pages visible.Adams feels he must submit certain papers for Nile's Weekly Register as ". . .I have motives of private honour and public duty for wishing to preserve these Papers in print. Your Repository is the best:. . ." Whether they are printed or not Adams wants them returned ". . .I find it necessary for me to preserve Vouchers. "
Information transferred from multiple blue slips now deleted. ER 8/5/2016

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