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To John Adams from Peter Thacher, 8 February 1791

From Peter Thacher

Boston Feb. 8 1791

Hond. & dr sir

I must make an apology for asking you to accept of the sermon inlosed herewith.1 You knew and loved the man whose death occasioned it, and this circumstance may render it pleasing to you to receive it. Besides, you loved the father of the author and have always been kind and friendly to him in person, and by these means the candor which it needs will be secured in your perusal of it.

Excuse me, sr, for saying that I feel the most lively gratitude for the services which you have done your country, and that you have my constant wishes and prayers for your health and happiness. Mrs Adams, with your good family, share in my best regards, and I am, / sr, with the utmost / respect, / Yr sincere friend & Sert

Peter Thacher

RC (Adams Papers); internal address: “Hon. J Adams Esqr / Vice president of the / united states.”

1. Thacher was the son of Oxenbridge Jr. (1719–1765), a prominent Boston lawyer long esteemed by JA (vol. 1:98). The younger Thacher likely enclosed a copy of his Sermon, Preached to the Society in Brattle Street, Boston, November 14, 1790: And Occasioned by the Death of the Hon. James Bowdoin, Esq. L.L.D. Lately Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Boston, 1791, Evans, description begins Charles Evans and others, American Bibliography: A Chronological Dictionary of All Books, Pamphlets and Periodical Publications Printed in the United States of America [1639–1800], Chicago and Worcester, Mass., 1903–1959; 14 vols., rev. edn., www.readex.com. description ends No. 23825.

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    To John Adams from Peter Thacher, 8 February 1791
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    “To John Adams from Peter Thacher, 8 February 1791,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-20-02-0289. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Papers of John Adams, vol. 20, June 1789–February 1791, ed. Sara Georgini, Sara Martin, R. M. Barlow, Gwen Fries, Amanda M. Norton, Neal E. Millikan, and Hobson Woodward. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020, pp. 472–473.]

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