record number: 283124

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Dates:

1 July 1834

Original paper slip text:1 July 1834

Author's location:

Washington,

Original paper slip text:Washington

Author:

John Quincy Adams

Original paper slip text:JQA

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Recipient:

Thomas Boylston Adams

Original paper slip text:to Lt. Thomas B. Adams

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Length:

2 p.

Notes:

ALS offered for sale — Carnegie Book Shop, 140 E. 59th St., N.Y., Cat. 228, lot 2, $37.50.
"THE WESTERN TERRITORY BILL WAS LAID ON THE TABLE"
Same, Cat. 251
2 ADAMS, JOHN Q. President of the U.S. A. L. s. 1 full p., 4to. Washington, 1 July 1834. $37.50
To his nephew, Thomas B. Adams, concerned with the closing session of Congress. ". . . I have forwarded to you copies of three Bills reported by Mr. Horace Everett from the Committee on Indian affairs. The first and second of them passed—perhaps with slight amendments. The Western Territory Bill was laid on the Table. . . . In ten days I hope to be quietly reposing at Quincy. . . ."

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Adams Papers microfilm: reel 152

Original held by:

Massachusetts Historical Society

From the collection: Letterbook copy, Adams Family Papers

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