Auction Date:2010 Aug 11 @ 22:00 (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
Handwritten congressional notes, signed in the text as “Adams,” on a 7.75 x 11 congressional log sheet. Dated January 24, 1843, Adams writes: “Present Adams, Granger, Shepard, Stuart, Caruthers, Meriwether. Chairman directed to report to the house the Bills read by him for establishing relations between the United States and the Sandwich Islands and also with the Chinese Empire. Mr. Granger reports unfavourably on the memorial of Commodore Ridgely and that he has leave to withdraw his memorial.” Reverse bears four other entries in various hands and reads: “1843 Jan. 31 Mr. Wise Virginia: Memorial for a line of Packets to chagret and an overland mail to Panama.
Feb. 3 Fillimore H. L. Ellsworth asking an appropriation to provide for captured Africans delivered at Liberia.
Feb'y 6 E. H. White Memorial of Hope L& Co., by E. J. Forstall. 2
Underwood Memorial of the Colonization Society." The signature that reads "Fillmore" is strikingly similar to Fillmore's signature, but we cannot verify that it is original. In fine, clean condition, with a couple horizontal folds to blank area.
Adams, the only former president to later serve in the US House of Representatives, here provides a fascinating autograph note. Discussing bills concerning Hawaii and China, it also documents the visit of Millard Fillmore regarding "an appropriation to provide for captured Africans.” This came on the heels of Adams' spectacular victory in the Amistad case, in which he successfully argued that African who seized control of the aforementioned vessel were being transported illegally as slaves and should be freed. Dark and readable penmanship by the 76-year-old former president.
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