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Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 To James McHenry

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC08036 Author/Creator: Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph letter signed Date: February 27, 1811 Pagination: 1 p. : address : docket Height: 25.1 cm, Width: 20.3 cm Order a Copy

"Atrocious conduct" of John Adams in dismissing McHenry: Adams became "an open aspostate, and a malignant slanderer of Hamilton."

Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829
Adams, John, 1735-1826
McHenry, James, 1753-1816

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