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Autograph letter signed

August 10, 1791

Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848

to James Bridge

Adams denies that his father had any part in writing the Publicola letters, which attacked Thomas Paine's "Rights of Man" as too radical. Adams does acknowledge that he is the author, claiming that idleness motivated his effort to "dabble in...

GLC00958.07
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Autograph letter signed

September 8, 1793

Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848

to James Bridge

Sends Bridge a pamphlet he wrote. Adams also asks Bridge to serve as attorney for the defendant in the case of Samuel Clark v. Tephamiah Newland. The case was brought over monies owed to Clark. Adams discusses the case at length, instructing...

GLC00958.08
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Autograph letter signed

September 22, 1793

Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848

to James Bridge

Corrects errors made in a previous letter (GLC00958.08) regarding comments made on the case of Clark v. Newland, for which Adams requested Bridge serve as the defendant's attorney. The plaintiffs name was actually Ebenezer Clark, not Samuel Clark...

GLC00958.09
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Header Record

22 October 1786, 21 November 1788

Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848

to James Bridge

Invitation to visit him. Marked at top: "Copy of letter in the possession of Miss H. North, N. Y." (19th C. copy).

GLC00958.12
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Manuscript

1790s

Bridge, James, 1765-1834

Scrapbook/letterbook: other letters collateral to correspondence

Includes letters from Bridge's other classmates from Harvard.

GLC00958.13

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