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At the Institute’s core is the Gilder Lehrman Collection, one of the great archives in American history. More than 85,000 items cover five hundred years of American history, from Columbus’s 1493 letter describing the New World through the end of the twentieth century.

Pickering, Timothy (1745-1829) To James McHenry

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC08036 Author/Creator: Pickering, Timothy (1745-1829) Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 27 February 1811 Pagination: 1 p. +address+docket + 1 printed sheet 25.1 x 20.3 cm. Order a Copy

"Atrocious conduct" of John Adams in dismissing McHenry: Adams became "an open aspostate, and a malignant slanderer of Hamilton."

Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829
Adams, John, 1735-1826
McHenry, James, 1753-1816

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