Autograph Letters Signed from John Quincy Adams to Various Recipients


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Correspondents include: Joseph Blunt, John B. Davis, James Henry Hackett. (1) is an ALS to Blunt, written from New York on February 8, 1830; there is also a typescript of this letter. (2) is an ALS to Davis, written from Boston on January 5, 1830. (3) is a facsimile of an ALS to Hackett, dated February 19, 1839, in which he gives his views on Hamlet; there is a total of 4 facsimile copies of this letter and one typescript.




Letters Received


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Collection includes a fragment of a letter signed by John Adams (but transcribed by a secretary) containing his views on temperance, as well as two notes from Josiah Quincy regarding Audubon's Birds of America. Also includes notes from John Quincy Adams, Robert Baird, Epes Sargent Dixwell, Charles Kemble and Henry Ware. With a letter to Harriet Parkman from Francis Parkman, the minister, conveying a gift of books. A few miscellaneous papers also included.




Papers of John Adams


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Letters of Mrs. Adams, the Wife of John Adams


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This volume contains the complete collection of surviving letters of First Lady Abigail Adams from her first letters to John Adams in 1764 to those written just two years before her death.




John Quincy Adams Autograph Letter to William Vans Murray, 1801 May 2


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Manuscript letter from John Quincy Adams to his friend William Vans Murray. Adams openly discusses his feelings on his imminent removal from his diplomatic post and his return to America, his opinion of Thomas Jefferson's inaugural speech, and his hopes for the new presidential administration. Signed simply "A".




Letter


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Facsimile of autograph letter signed. Folded letter sheet with address. John Quincy Adams asks his father for instructions on how to proportion his studies and playtime.