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Founding Father’s intimate letter to
teenage bride sold for $40,000

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Posted By: Imright, 7/2/2023 10:13:13 AM

An intimate testament to love and to home written and signed by Founding Father John Adams was sold for $40,000 by auction house Raab Collection on Wednesday. The heartfelt letter from the then-elderly former president to a teenage bride-to-be had been kept in a private family collection for nearly 200 years. Its existence was unknown to scholars who have spent more than two centuries poring through the voluminous letters from the giant of global political history for insight into the founding of the United States of America. “I rejoice at your prospect of an intimate connection with the family of my excellent friend Judge Peters,

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Skinnydip 7/2/2023 10:23:02 AM (No. 1504130)
That sounds cheap. I would have thought it would worth a lot more than that.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Quigley 7/2/2023 10:51:39 AM (No. 1504150)
I love the footnotes of history. Did any of you read about the note the watch repairman left in Lincoln’s watch a few days before his assassination?
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Urgent Fury 7/2/2023 11:01:29 AM (No. 1504157)
Quick heads-up--Adams was NOT writing to his bride, it was somebody else.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: lynngirl122 7/2/2023 12:00:22 PM (No. 1504230)
Subtract the commission for the auction house minus taxes you get pittance.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: earlybird 7/2/2023 12:49:17 PM (No. 1504260)
“Intimate” had a much different meaning in those days, and older men and women also became fond of young men and women who were children of neighbors, most of whom were also their close friends. I am reading Jane Austen. “Emma” is an example of this. The elders almost became surrogate parents or at least surrogate aunts and uncles. He was writing to a young neighbor woman who was to marry into a family he well knew. It was found in a family marriage album. Read the article. It is quite lovely.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: LadyVet 7/2/2023 12:54:26 PM (No. 1504262)
Headline makes it sound like Adam's was on the same level as Bill Clinton and Joe Biden. Actually it was a letter of encouragement to a member of a family held in high regard and fondness.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: earlybird 7/2/2023 1:47:33 PM (No. 1504294)
Definitely a clickbait headline from the tabloid NYP, much like the Brit tabloids DM, etc.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: earlybird 7/2/2023 1:51:11 PM (No. 1504297)
Hit Submir roo soon. Article headline obviously clickbaited up by NYP headline writers. Article was republished by NYP from Fox Business.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: nwcudagal 7/2/2023 4:57:22 PM (No. 1504413)
I agree that the headline was misleading. When my mother got married in 1934 she was 15 years old; one of nine children who were mostly girls.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: NYbob 7/3/2023 1:56:42 AM (No. 1504642)
I am running out of words to describe our media today. Loathsome is a start. The slime will stoop to nothing to get attention. If there is ever a purge of some sort, start with everyone in media. Work down from the top.
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