record number: 190997

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Dates:

17 May 1819

Original paper slip text:17 May 1819

Author:

John Quincy Adams

Original paper slip text:JQA

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Recipient:

John Adams Smith

Original paper slip text:John Adams Smith,

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with 1 enclosure [drawings of a seal]

Title:

Length:

3 p.

Notes:

Archival Note: The seal, which was intended to be cut for JA, is of a ship under full sail with the motto "Fortiter occupa Portum." There is another letter from JQA to John Smith of this same date (
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) which does not mention this seal. Perhaps the seal letter was never sent. Entered by ER 11/19/2015

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Adams Papers microfilm: reel 447

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Massachusetts Historical Society

From the collection: Adams Family Papers

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