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Adams, Samuel, 1722-1803 to James Warren

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC01215 Author/Creator: Adams, Samuel, 1722-1803 Place Written: Boston, Massachusetts Type: Autograph letter signed Date: July 16, 1772 Pagination: 4 p. : docket ; Height: 19 cm, Width: 15.4 cm Order a Copy

Letter written by Adams, a future signer of the Declaration of Independence, as member of the Massachusetts legislature to Warren, also a member of the Massachusetts legislature. Says the session is over and the resolves, including one asking the King to rescind Governor Hutchinson's salary, have passed. Says he will send him a copy of the resolves if he promises not to publish them. Expresses his friendship with Warren, who he says was with him when the Tories cursed him at a commencement speech at Cambridge and at another occasion when "Confusion to me & my Adherents was given as a toast." Attacks Governor Hutchinson's attempt to draw a salary independent of the legislature from Crown revenues. Mentions that James Austin is a promising new Whig in the legislature. Praises his speech to the assembly. Expresses his compliments to Warren's wife, Mercy Otis Warren, the famous writer. Says his wife "has the Sauciness to overlook me while writing, a trick I cannot break her of," and that she sends her regards. Letter previously repaired at crease.

Adams, Samuel, 1722-1803
Warren, James, 1726-1808
Warren, Mercy Otis, 1728-1814
Hutchinson, Thomas, 1711-1780
Austin, James, fl. 1772

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