BIB_ID
80025
Accession number
MA 22262
Creator
Adams, John, 1735-1826, sender.
Display Date
Quincy, Massachusetts, 1814 May 30.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 24.8 x 20.3 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Honble. Richard Rush Esquire / J. Adams. Attorney General of the U.S. / Washington."
Docketed in ink on verso.
From page 14 of Adams album.
Docketed in ink on verso.
From page 14 of Adams album.
Summary
Responding to Rush's earlier letter sent to him on May 20th; discussing Rush's acquisition of new law books, the Napoleonic Wars in Europe and the effect they might have on the war (of 1812) at home; commenting that "victory has destroyed Napoleon."
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