Auction Date:2012 Apr 18 @ 18:00 (UTC-5 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
LS, one page, 7.5 x 6.5, September 29, 1817. Just days after assuming the role of Secretary of State, Adams writes from Washington, in full: “I have the honor to inform your Excellency that eleven boxes containing printed copies of the Acts of the second session of the Fourteenth Congress, appropriated by Law for the State of Pennsylvania, have been forwarded from this place to the Collector of the Customs at Philadelphia, safely and expeditiously, to Harrisburgh in order that they may be thence distributed by the proper authority of the Commonwealth.” In very good condition, with show-through from a heavy strip of adhesive remnant to the reverse, securing the previously separated two halves of the letter, a small area of paper loss, and both the top corners clipped.
In this letter, the newly-minted secretary of state dispatches information about the Tariff of 1816 to one of the largest American ports. Otherwise known as the Dallas tariff, it was the first passed by Congress intended to protect American manufacturing from foreign competition. Appointed by President Monroe, Adams was one of the greatest secretaries of state in US history: he played a major role in the acquisition of Florida, negotiated the Transcontinental Treaty, and formulated the Monroe Doctrine with the president. He would serve as secretary of state until elected president in 1825. An early document from Adams’ tenure as secretary.
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