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- GLC#
- GLC02847
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 1840/03/04
- Author/Creator
- Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848
- Title
- to Roscoe G. Greene re: Grey's Elegy, the Constitution
- Pagination
- 2 p. : Height: 26 cm, Width: 21 cm
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Age of Jackson
Adams comments at length upon punctuation in Grey's "Elegy in a Churchyard" (and the powers of Congress as limited or expanded by a semi-colon in the Constitution. He also writes that "No land of slavery could ever have produced Grey's Elegy."
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