ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY President , Autograph letter signed in full to John Angier of Medford, Mass., Washington, D.C. 10 February 1845. One full page, 4to, recipient's docket on verso . In very fine condition. An eloquent, dignified letter of condolence. "I have received with deep affliction the tidings of the heavy bereavement which has befallen you, and although in a calamity so irreparable, conscious that all other consolation than that which is from above must be unavailing I cannot forbear from imparting to you the heart felt sympathy with you sorrows of my partner [Mrs. Adams] and my own. We intreat you to communicate them from us also to Mrs Adams and Elizabeth the mother and Sister of your dear departed wife. We fervently pray that the hopes of a future and happier world may sustain you in this severe dispensation of Providence; and in the consciousness of the few days left to us in this earthly scene we derive a humble hope of your rejoining her who first in your affections, stood so long and so deservedly high in ours. We commend you to the compassion of him whose tender mercies are over all his works...."
ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY President , Autograph letter signed in full to John Angier of Medford, Mass., Washington, D.C. 10 February 1845. One full page, 4to, recipient's docket on verso . In very fine condition. An eloquent, dignified letter of condolence. "I have received with deep affliction the tidings of the heavy bereavement which has befallen you, and although in a calamity so irreparable, conscious that all other consolation than that which is from above must be unavailing I cannot forbear from imparting to you the heart felt sympathy with you sorrows of my partner [Mrs. Adams] and my own. We intreat you to communicate them from us also to Mrs Adams and Elizabeth the mother and Sister of your dear departed wife. We fervently pray that the hopes of a future and happier world may sustain you in this severe dispensation of Providence; and in the consciousness of the few days left to us in this earthly scene we derive a humble hope of your rejoining her who first in your affections, stood so long and so deservedly high in ours. We commend you to the compassion of him whose tender mercies are over all his works...."
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