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Dates:

10 May 1819

Original paper slip text:10 May 1819.

Author's location:

Quincy, MA

Original paper slip text:Quincy MA

Author:

John Adams

Original paper slip text:JA

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Recipient:

Hezekiah Niles

Original paper slip text:to Hezekiah Niles

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In LbC 5122, at 9 May 1819
LS sold, Anderson Gall., N.Y., 13 Nov. 1916, lot 97, $19.00.
In Peter Force Papers, Series IX [Historical Mss.]
"Copy of a ltr. ('Copied from the original in the hands of Mr. Deeth, Sep. 17, 1852.'): ...to Mr. Niles, Editor of the Weekly Register, Baltimore: Alleging employment in the discharge of his duty as a Barrister at Law in the Court of Judicature in the Town of and Country of Plymouth as to why at the time of the Boston Tea Party he was ignorant of the individuals who staged the affair. Eagerness to see another volume of Niles's Register, not having seen one for six months. Request that any of the several manuscripts Adams had sent, be returned if there was no intention to publish such. [Adams's final paragraph may have been omitted if Niles published the letter in his Register for May 29, 1819.]" (Adams Papers Office files, Box 6, of NP Search). --SEG, 2/17/2010
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Historical Mag

Original paper slip text:Printed: Historical Mag., 2nd Ser., 6:309 (Nov. 1869)

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The Historical Magazine, Boston, New York, Morrisania, 1857-1875. 23 vols.

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Niles Weekly Register

Original paper slip text:Printed: Niles' Register, 16:226.

Niles' weekly register. Baltimore, 1814-1837. 47 vols.

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