record number: 231674

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Dates:

5 Oct. 1823

Original paper slip text:5 Oct. 1823

Author:

John Quincy Adams

Original paper slip text:JQA.

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Title:

Poem: "Wachusett Hill. A Sonnet" ("As you tall Mountain peering to the Skies...") dreft and fair copy, the latter adding "To

Ward Nicholas Boylston

Original paper slip text:"To Ward Nicholas Boylston"

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Length:

1 p., 1 p.

Document Type:

JQA—Poems, Hymns, Prayers, &c.

Notes:

Copy from Boylston papers currently boxed in cage in E187 Letters Removed from other collections, Box 1A
"The conjectured date of the poem 'Wachusett Hill' was changed from 28-29 Oct. 1823 to 5 Oct. 1823 on the basis of JQA to Nicholas Ward Boylston, 24 Oct. 1823. SM, 21 March 1968."
Formerly dated at 28-29 Oct. 1823 then redated to 5 Oct. 1823. --SEG and JTC, 7/8/10

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Massachusetts Historical Society

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