3 Jan. 1820
Original paper slip text:3 Jan. 1820.
Montezillo
Original paper slip text:Montezillo
Unable to lookup name for quincy.2 p.
- Ls offered for sale, King V. Hostick, 55 East Washington St., Chicago 2, List No. 155, item 2, $175.00.
- Ls offered for sale, King V. Hostick, 55 East Wash. St., Chicago, List No. 17, item1, (May 1965)
- ADAMS, JOHN. LS, 4to 2pp, January 3, 1820.
- "Congress is not yet gathered into Life, nor acquired heat enough to emit Electric Sparks but I expect before long to hear loud claps and harsh crashes of thunder. I hope the bolts will strike only in desolate places.
- "I mourn over my friend Bentley with great sincerity. . . . An immense magazine of learning, a protege of industry and a model of benevolence and of philanthropy, his style was not perfectly polished nor his thought perfectly digested at all times. Indeed he did write and thought too much to revise, correct and burnish anything. The Essex Register will never find such another Editor and I shall lose the only newspaper I pretended to read.
- "It is reported that Everett is to preach his funeral sermon and if it were possible I would go to hear it."
- A splendid letter by the second President written in the last years of his life.
- $175.00
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Adams Papers microfilm: reel 124
Original held by:Massachusetts Historical Society
From the collection: Letterbook copy, Adams Family Papers
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