Letter to John Binns, 1819 September 20.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Letter to John Binns, 1819 September 20.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/55230797

Adams thanks Binns for a copy of Binns' facsimile of the Declaration of Independence and requests him not to send another. At a later date Binns annotated Adams letter: "I should have been not a little surprised at receiving the above note from Mr. Adams had I not previously been informed by a friend that Mr. Adams had taken offence at my not having made a place for an engraved likeness of him in the splendid edition of the Declaration I had published" [and which contained engraved likenesses of Washington, Jefferson and Hancock.]. Binns continues "Mr. Adams has long since descended to the tomb of his fathers still I feel it due to myself to declare that nothing could be further from my intention than to give ground to an opinion of casting the shadow of a doubt upon the patriotism of Mr. Adams but more especially in any matter connected [to] the Declaration ... of which Mr. Jefferson wrote me 'John Adams was the ablest advocate of the Dec. of Independence on the floor of Congress.'" With the address is the original free franked address leaf from Quincy, Mass., bearing remnants of Adams's seal.

1 item.

University of Virginia. Library

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7692749

University of Virginia. Library

Related Entities

There are 5 Entities related to this resource.

United States

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6f874hn (corporateBody)

Idaho became a state on July 3, 1890 with post offices being established as early as 1876. From the guide to the Franklin County, Idaho Post Office Location Records, 1876-1945, (Utah State University. Special Collections and Archives) These photographs document Region 4, started in 1910, of the US Forest Service, covering Utah, Nevada, Southern Idaho, and Western Wyoming. From the guide to the US Forest Service Photograph Collection., 19...

Adams, John, 1735-1826

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61h1b9v (person)

John Adams (1735-1826) was the second president of the United States, born in Braintree (now Quincy), Massachusetts. He served as defense counsel for British soldiers accused of Boston Massacre in 1770; as delegate to Continental Congress from 1774 to 1778; as member of committee charged with drafting Declaration of Independence in 1776; as congressional commissioner to France from 1778 to 1779; as minister to United Provinces in 1780; and negotiated a loan from Dutch bankers in 1782. Adams join...

Albert H. Small Declaration of Independence Collection (University of Virginia)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6z65rdz (corporateBody)

Binns, John, 1772-1860

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64t79wc (person)

Irish born American journalist; editor "Republican Argus"; Philadelphia alderman. From the description of Letter to A[sbury?] Dickens, 1824 August 9. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 48823406 ...

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60d5jrb (person)

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) was an American statesman and third president of the United States. From the description of Thomas Jefferson letter, 1809. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367818629 Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) was the third president of the United States, born in Goochland (now Albemarle County), Virginia. He was a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses from 1769 to 1775, and with R. H. Lee and Patrick Henry initiated the inter-colonial committee of correspond...