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Letters from Eliphalet Pearson

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Eliphalet Pearson to John Adams, June 15, 1789

From Eliphalet Pearson

To John Adams

June 15, 1789

Cambridge 15 June 1789. Sir, President Willard having resigned the office of corresponding secretary to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, your goodness will pardon his successor, in diverting…

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Eliphalet Pearson to John Adams, August 21, 1797

From Eliphalet Pearson

To John Adams

August 21, 1797

Cambridge 21 Augt. 1797 Sir, The American Academy of Arts and Sciences return their Thanks for your donation of Richd. Peters’s “Agricultural Inquiries on plaster of Paris,” 1 vol. 4to:,…