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Title Page, The Stranger, In America:
The first known publication of the President's House design shows the temporary wooden porch and steps that greeted President John Adams and First Lady Abigail in 1800. Janson was a British lawyer who briefly emigrated to, and lost money investing in, America. He found the new nation and its people entirely unsatisfactory. He wrote this account to warn other would-be emigrants "whose delusive hopes" might similarly end in disappointment.
Charles William Janson; published by James Cundee
Albion Press, London, 1807 |