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Four letters : being an interesting correspondence between those eminently distinguished characters, John Adams, late President of the United States; and Samuel Adams, late Governor of Massachusetts. On the important subject of government
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John Adams, Quincy, Massachusetts, letter to John Quincy Adams :
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