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John Quincy Adams, Washington, D.C., letter to Richard Rush, York, Pennsylvania :
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John Quincy Adams, Ealing, Great Britain, letter to Thomas Aspinwall, London :
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Letter to the U.S. consul in Great Britain regarding accounts with contractors and unjustified charges, gives Aspinwall the power to reject charges; encloses money order for a transaction. Adams also refers to destitute American seamen in Great Britain claiming relief and hopes they will be sent home on U.S. vessels.
mssHM 4691
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John Quincy Adams, Berlin, letter to Elbridge Gerry :
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Regarding U.S. relations with France and Gerry's special diplomatic commission there (along with Charles Cotesworth Pinckney and John Marshall); letter also discusses the new decree against neutral navigation and commerce and U.S. relations with Great Britain. Endorsed by Gerry.
mssHM 22837
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John Quincy Adams, Washington, D.C., letter to John Gorham Palfrey :
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Adams reports that he still has not finished his article on China for the North American Review; he is too busy in Congress and preparing for a U.S. Supreme Court case, most likely United States v. The Amistad.
mssHM 26329
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John Quincy Adams, Washington, D.C., letter to James Madison :
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The Italian sculptor Pietro (Peter) Cardelli is making busts of U.S. presidents; Adams requests permission from Madison for Cardelli to visit him at Montpelier to take the model of his bust. Letter is incomplete, cut off below first paragraph (see published version in Founders Online, National Archives for complete text).
mssHM 23011
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John Quincy Adams, Washington, D.C., letter to James Madison :
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Requesting information about Alexander Hamilton's plan of government read by him as a speech at the Constitutional Convention, 1787; would like to know the date of the speech and the question or subject in the debate which gave occasion to it; speech is to be published with the Journal of the Convention. Letter is incomplete, cut off below first paragraph (see published version in Founders Online, National Archives for complete text).
mssHM 23012
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John Adams, Quincy, Massachusetts, letter to Richard Rush :
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Letter expressing Adams' views on aristocracy as natural, that inequalities of influence exist in nature, must be levelled by law; also discusses the "privileged order of beauty" and the example of Emma, Lady Hamilton. Item is bound with an engraved portrait of Adams and an auction or sale advertisement of the Adams letter.
mssHM 21696