BIB_ID
268427
Accession number
MA 552.20
Creator
Adams, John, 1735-1826.
Display Date
1774 June 25.
Credit line
Likely acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 31.6 cm
Notes
Addressed to "the Honourable James Warren Esqr / Plymouth."
Docketed.
Part of a two-volume set of autographs of signers of the Declaration of Independence; see main record for MA 552-553 for more information.
With seal.
Docketed.
Part of a two-volume set of autographs of signers of the Declaration of Independence; see main record for MA 552-553 for more information.
With seal.
Summary
Writing that he is "totally at a loss what to do when [he] get[s]" to Philadelphia and "hope[s] to be there taught"; writing, "It is to be a School of Political Prophets I Suppose -- a Nursery of American Statesmen. May it thrive, and prosper and flourish and from this Fountain may there issue Streams, which shall gladden all the Cities and Towns in North America, forever"; noting that he thinks the meeting should be annual with different men sent every year so "that all the principal Genius's may go to the University in Rotation -- that We may have Politicians in Plenty"; discussing educating their sons in politics; asking for his "Sentiments [on] what is proper, praticable[,] expedient, wise, just, good, necessary to be done at Phyladelphia."
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