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Manuscript/Mixed Material Letter, John Adams to federal department heads ordering the relocation of government offices from Philadelphia to the District of Columbia, 15 May 1800.

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Title

  • Letter, John Adams to federal department heads ordering the relocation of government offices from Philadelphia to the District of Columbia, 15 May 1800.

Created / Published

  • 15 May 1800

Headings

  • -  Pennsylvania
  • -  Presidents
  • -  Adams, John (1735-1826)
  • -  Federal government
  • -  Philadelphia (Pa.)
  • -  Washington (D.C.)
  • -  Manuscripts

Genre

  • Manuscripts

Notes

  • -  Reproduction number: A29 (color slide); LC-MSS-87668-1 (B&W negative)
  • -  John Adams (1735-1826), second president of the United States, wrote this 15 May 1800 letter to the heads of the various federal departments and agencies on the eve of the federal government's relocation from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to the District of Columbia. As the letter indicates, this final directive gave government officials only thirty days to be relocated and operating in their new, and often unfinished, quarters on the Potomac River. Adams was the first president to occupy the residence that came to be called the White House.

Source Collection

  • United States Commissioners of the City of Washington Records

Repository

  • Manuscript Division

Online Format

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Chicago citation style:

Letter, John Adams to federal department heads ordering the relocation of government offices from Philadelphia to the District of Columbia, 15 May. 15 May, 1800. Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://www.loc.gov/item/mcc.071/.

APA citation style:

(1800) Letter, John Adams to federal department heads ordering the relocation of government offices from Philadelphia to the District of Columbia, 15 May. 15 May. [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/mcc.071/.

MLA citation style:

Letter, John Adams to federal department heads ordering the relocation of government offices from Philadelphia to the District of Columbia, 15 May. 15 May, 1800. Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/mcc.071/>.