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- GLC#
- GLC04077
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 2 January 1832
- Author/Creator
- Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848
- Title
- to Thomas L. McKenney
- Place Written
- Washington, District of Columbia
- Pagination
- 1 p. : docket Height: 25.1 cm, Width: 20 cm
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Age of Jackson
Adams offers advice on McKenney's work on American Indian tribes, "History of the Indian Tribes of North America." Adams, who had read the book's proofs, suggests defining terms like prairie for the European audience. Expresses his hopes that the book had gone into detail on the Shawnee prophet.
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