record number: 431227

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Dates:

27 Aug. 1802

Original paper slip text:27 Aug. 1802.

Author's location:

Boston, MA

Original paper slip text:Boston

Author:

John Quincy Adams

Original paper slip text:JQA

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Recipient:

Thomas Boylston Adams

Original paper slip text:TBA

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Length:

2 p.

Notes:

Document is held at MQHi.
Accession is housed in the Adams Papers at date of letter.
Corresponding pink slip is
111014
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ALS offered for sale, Goodspeed's, #46 (Nov. 1906), Item 11, $15.00.
II Adams, John Quincy. Sixth President of the U. S. A. l. s., 2 pp., 4° Boston, 1802. To his brother—T. B. Adams. $15.00
A letter of extraordinary interest—"You have seen two letters from your father to S. Adams, written in 1790, lately published in the Newspapers—They have been attacked with characteristic violence and bitterness, by the fifty dollar men at Washington. ... The first publication was to defeat the basest misrepresentations, which were circulating here by the paid slanderers, who had seen them by the treachery of the old prophet. ... Judge how much the publication has exasperated these fellows, by taking the lie out of their mouths, and holding it up to the public view.—They are flouncing and foaming and spouting and dashing with the tail at a furious rate; but the harpoon is in them—they shall have their full length of rope to plunge downward; and then if they are not drawn up, cut up, barreled up and tried down for the benefit of the public, say to all the world that I am the disgrace of New-England Whale men."
With this letter is a copy of a pamphlet, (published in the same year,) in which the correspondence between John and Samuel Adams referred to, is printed in full.
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Quincy Historical Society, Adams Academy Building

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AFC, 15:222–224

Adams Family Correspondence, volume 15, page 222

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JQA Writings

Original paper slip text:JQA, Writings, 3:6 (from the collection of Wm. Nelson) (with omissions)

Full citation:

Writings of John Quincy Adams, ed. Worthington Chauncey Ford, New York, 1913–1917
7 vols.

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