Genres: Letters Diaries & Personal Papers

Constitutional Convention
1491–1764

Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania, Letter II

Source: Paul Leicester Ford, ed., The Writings of John Dickinson (Philadelphia: Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1895), 1:312–22. https://archive.org/details/writingsofjohndi00dickrich/page/312 My dear countrymen, There is another late act of Parliament, which appears

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1764–1787

Remember the Ladies

Sources: Abigail Adams to John Adams, March 31, 1776, Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/04-01-02-0241; J. Adams to A. Adams, April 14, 1776, Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/04-01-02-0248; A. Adams to

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1764–1787

Draft of The Declaration of Independence

Source: H. A. Washington, ed., The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, 9 vols. (Washington, D.C.: Taylor and Maury, 1853–54), 1:19–26. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000365325 … Congress proceeded the same day [July 2] to consider

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1764–1787

Circular Letter to the States

Source: George Washington to the States, June 8–21, 1783, Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/99-01-02-11404. The great object, for which I had the honor to hold an appointment in the service of

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1860–1877

Fragment on the Constitution and Union

Source: New Letters and Papers of Lincoln, compiled by Paul M. Angle (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1930), 240–241, https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000318262. All this is not the result of accident. It has a

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