3 May 1789
Original paper slip text:3 May 1789.
New York, NY
Original paper slip text:New York
3 p.
- Note title change from Schaffner Collection to Joseph Halle Schaffner Autograph Coll. per GKF and SEG, 3/8/2017Schaffner Collection
- ALs sold, Parke-Bernet, 8 October 1963, lot 2, $400.
- ALS offered for sale, John Heise, #2468, [1935], item 1.
- NO SALARY FOR THE VICE-PRESIDENT
- 2. ADAMS, JOHN. A.L.s., "John Adams," 3 pp., 8vo, New York, 3 May 1789. To Cotton Tufts. With integral address leaf (small tear and remnant of pasted description slip).
- Written soon after Adams was elected the first Vice-President of the United States. "Every thing has happened, as I could wish since I left you, excepting the delay of making Provision for my Subsistance; and this has proceeded from an uncertainty what they ought to do. I am very easy on that Point, as I am determined to live in Proportion to my allowance." Discusses a pamphlet or volume which Mr. [Isaiah] Thomas wishes to print, containing some of Adams' letters and speeches. "I have not found the Duties of my offices very difficult or very painful, as yet. The Senators have shewn a disposition, to render them as easy and to make my station as respectable as I could desire. I have seen no symptoms of any opposition, and all the world is ashamed of the silly Intrigue with which our first great Election has been tarnished and disgraced."
- An important letter.
- Information transferred from blue slip now deleted. ER 9/14/2015 - AMN 5/3/18
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