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ADAMS, John Quincy (1767-1848), President, Congressman. Autograph letter signed (“John Q. Adams”) to Joseph Pitcairn (1764-1844), Berlin, 31 May 1800. 1 page, 4to, integral address leaf, wax seal (seal hole not affecting text). An early J. Q. Adams letter to a fellow American diplomat (Pitcairn was U.S. consul at the important shipping port of Hamburg), mixing personal and official business. “I am much obliged to you for your kindness in procuring the biscuits and the wine. Col. Swan when he was here mentioned that you had some fine tea of which you could dispose. If you have any of it left, and could let me have a dozen pounds of it, I should be very glad.” Regarding a vacancy at a consular post at Bordeaux, Adams says, “I have so great a regard and esteem for Mr. Rogers that even without your recommendation nothing could give me greater pleasure than to have it in my power to serve him...” – ADAMS. ALS (“John Quincy Adams”), to Thomas Aspinwall, Craven Street, [London], 9 June 1817. 1 page, 4to, integral address leaf with most of wax seal . ¿shipping furniture and disposing quntities of wine¿. Adams prepares to return from his stint as a diplomat in London, and carefully tallies various articles he is shipping home; he arranges insurance policies for furniture, trunks and a carriage. – ADAMS. ALS (“John Quincy Adams”), to T. H. Hubbard, Washington, 25 October 1819. 3 pages, 4to, chipped along edge costing portion of a few words, worn at folds, one portion of signature page browned. Adams disputes the attempt of a debtor to conflate a debt owed to his late brother Charles, who died of alcoholism in 1800, with a debt owed to him. “The question implied in your letter of 15 April was, whether the debt for which I held Mr. Justus B. Smith’s note, had not in reality been a debt of my brother Charles, for which Mr. Smith had done him the favour to become responsible to [me.] I naturally supposed that you had a motive in putting the question to me. That you believed me possessed of the knowledge of facts which would enable me to answer it; and that if the debt had been my brother Charles’s, it would be generous on my part towards Mr. Smith’s heirs, to look for payment not to his note, but to my brother Charles’s estate…” – ADAMS. ALS (“John Quincy Adams”), as Congressman, to Joseph Robbins, 17 January 1838. 1 page, 8vo. Ink stain obscuring a few letters. Framed (not examined out of frame). Rewarding a War hero. Adams informs Robbins (of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia) that he shall receive an $80 pension, “during your natural life…for your services in the war of the American Revolution
ADAMS, John Quincy (1767-1848), President, Congressman. Autograph letter signed (“John Q. Adams”) to Joseph Pitcairn (1764-1844), Berlin, 31 May 1800. 1 page, 4to, integral address leaf, wax seal (seal hole not affecting text). An early J. Q. Adams letter to a fellow American diplomat (Pitcairn was U.S. consul at the important shipping port of Hamburg), mixing personal and official business. “I am much obliged to you for your kindness in procuring the biscuits and the wine. Col. Swan when he was here mentioned that you had some fine tea of which you could dispose. If you have any of it left, and could let me have a dozen pounds of it, I should be very glad.” Regarding a vacancy at a consular post at Bordeaux, Adams says, “I have so great a regard and esteem for Mr. Rogers that even without your recommendation nothing could give me greater pleasure than to have it in my power to serve him...” – ADAMS. ALS (“John Quincy Adams”), to Thomas Aspinwall, Craven Street, [London], 9 June 1817. 1 page, 4to, integral address leaf with most of wax seal . ¿shipping furniture and disposing quntities of wine¿. Adams prepares to return from his stint as a diplomat in London, and carefully tallies various articles he is shipping home; he arranges insurance policies for furniture, trunks and a carriage. – ADAMS. ALS (“John Quincy Adams”), to T. H. Hubbard, Washington, 25 October 1819. 3 pages, 4to, chipped along edge costing portion of a few words, worn at folds, one portion of signature page browned. Adams disputes the attempt of a debtor to conflate a debt owed to his late brother Charles, who died of alcoholism in 1800, with a debt owed to him. “The question implied in your letter of 15 April was, whether the debt for which I held Mr. Justus B. Smith’s note, had not in reality been a debt of my brother Charles, for which Mr. Smith had done him the favour to become responsible to [me.] I naturally supposed that you had a motive in putting the question to me. That you believed me possessed of the knowledge of facts which would enable me to answer it; and that if the debt had been my brother Charles’s, it would be generous on my part towards Mr. Smith’s heirs, to look for payment not to his note, but to my brother Charles’s estate…” – ADAMS. ALS (“John Quincy Adams”), as Congressman, to Joseph Robbins, 17 January 1838. 1 page, 8vo. Ink stain obscuring a few letters. Framed (not examined out of frame). Rewarding a War hero. Adams informs Robbins (of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia) that he shall receive an $80 pension, “during your natural life…for your services in the war of the American Revolution