record number: 431046

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Dates:

10 Mar. 1825

Original paper slip text:10 March 1825

Author's location:

Washington,

Original paper slip text:Washington

Author:

John Quincy Adams

Original paper slip text:JQA

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Title:

Poem "Fair Lady may thy lot be sweet..."

Length:

1p.

Document Type:

JQA—Poems, Hymns, Prayers, &c.

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Notes:

Previously in Electronic Image Archive, now accessioned. ER 2/18/2016
"Fair Lady may thy lot be sweet,
As mortals lot may be;
And whensoever thine eye shall meet,
This page - A Hero shall repeat,
His blessing upon thee.
Propitious be the Power divine,
To his orison, and to mine."
John Quincy Adams, Washington 10. March 1825
The above poem was written by Adams in an album, owned by a young woman who was a family friend of the Adams’. It contains other notes and poems, including one from
Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier Lafayette Marquis
Original paper slip text:Marquis de Lafayette
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. Additionally, the album includes proverbs of the time and newspaper clippings.

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Original held by:

The New York Historical Society

From the collection: Gilder Lehrman Collection

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