Twenty-six Letters, Upon Interesting Subjects, Respecting The Revolution Of America. Written In Holland In The Year M,dcc,lxxx. By
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British Library

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The letters were written to Dr. Hendrik Calkoen. The work had been privately issued twice before, in New York by the same printer, 1789, and in London, 1786. "Never before published" may mean that this is the first public issue. Two states of the title

New-York.: Printed by John Fenno, at his office, no. 9, Maiden-Lane, M, DCC, LXXXIX. 1789] 4]64p.; 12
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John Adams (1735-1826), educated as a lawyer at Harvard, was the Massachusetts delegate to the First and Second Continental Congresses. During the Revolutionary War, he served abroad in diplomatic rol...
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