MANUSCRIPT: destroyed.

PUBLICATION: L (1894) 239-241; LL 225-226, in part; L (1931) 223- 224.

Sylvester H. Adams died at Annapolis, 31 December 1861, of typhoid fever. Frazar Stearns was the son of President Stearns of Amherst. He was killed in March of the following year (see letter no. 255).