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Dates:

18 Oct. 1800

Original paper slip text:18 Oct. 1800.

Author's location:

Quincy, MA

Original paper slip text:Quincy

Author:

Abigail Smith Adams

Original paper slip text:AA

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Recipient:

Benjamin Rush

Original paper slip text:Benjamin Rush

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Length:

3 p.

Notes:

Original currently boxed in cage in E187 Letters Removed from other collections, Box 1
Adams Papers, All Gens.
Purchased by MHi, May 2010;--MAH, 6/15/2010
A copy is also in the Electronic Image Archive and as a digital printout in the accessions closet, however neither includes the address page.
Offered for sale, Sotheby's, New York, 14 April 2010, in first James S. Copley Library sale, Lot 2, $10,000-$15,000.
ALS offered for sale, Goodspeed's, #373, Dec. 1943, item 2, $45; also #384, March 1945, item 3, $45.
2 ADAMS, ABIGAIL. Gifted wife of John Adams. A.L.S., 2 pages, 1800. To Benjamin Rush of Philadelphia [Signer of the D. of I.] $45.00
An impressive letter in support of her husband, reading in part,—"the President has had, during this summer an uncommon share of virulence leveled at him, from those who have been firm supporters of Washington's administration—these same gentlemen have become the most inveterate opposers of the President, and for no other reason than because he chose to act and think for himself, contrary to their opinion—the embassy to France has been the source of all their enmity. The vicious papers in the state [Massachusetts] particularly the Centinel—has become the vehicle of the party denominated the Essex junto—The President says he has three times already been tried by his Countrymen upon the charge of attachment to Monarchy and so far acquited, as to receive their suffrages—If there can be any measures calculated to excite a wish in the breasts of our Countrymen for a permanent executive it must arise from the corruption of morals introduced by frequent elections—" etc.
Information transferred from multiple blue slips now deleted. ER 9/28/2015

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AFC, 14:424–425

Adams Family Correspondence, volume 14, page 424

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Printed (in part): Biddle Papers, pt. 1, lot 1

Original paper slip text:Printed (in part): Biddle Papers, pt. 1, lot 1

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