Letter from Martha Washington, Mount Vernon, Virginia, to Abigail Adams, 1800 January 1 : autograph manuscript signed | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:Thanking Adams for her letter following the death of President Washington; stating that she relies on "that almighty power" for consolation and wishing Adams happiness

Genre:Portraits

Physical Description:1 item (1 page) ; 23.3 x 19.7 cm

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:270660167

Notes:

Docketed in ink on verso

The recipient of this letter is simply identified as "My Dear Madam", however, the accession records for the purchase of this letter indicate it was written to "Mrs. John Adams."

Formerly bound with a letter from George Washington to Tobias Lear (MA 999.1), Company Orders issued by Captain Joseph McIlvaine on the death of General Washington (MA 999.2), two additional letters by Martha Washington (MA 1008 and 1014) and a letter from Abigail Adams (MA 1018). These letters were bound together at the Library after being individually acquired; this synthetic collection was disbound in 2015, and the binding was retained

Accompanied by a manuscript description, in an unknown hand, of Mrs. Washington's visit to Cambridge on December 11, 1775, a silhouette portrait of Martha Washington, a printed copy of the portrait of Martha Washington painted by Gilbert Stuart ca. 1792, two engraved portraits of Mrs. Washington, one by J.C. Buttre "from Stuart's Picture" and the other from an etching by J.B. Longacre "from an original miniature by Robertson."