Autograph letter signed : Quincy, to Benjamin Rush, 1807 May 1.

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Autograph letter signed : Quincy, to Benjamin Rush, 1807 May 1.

Concerning his entry into public life, various historical events, and boasting of his own "Declaration of Independence", written twenty-one years before Jefferson's.

1 item (4 p.) ; (8vo)

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