24 May 1821
Original paper slip text:24 May 1821.
Montezillo
Original paper slip text:Montezillo
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- Offered for sale, Kenneth W. Rendell, Inc., Sommerville, Mass., Catalogue 75 (June 1972), item 1. $3850.00
- ALS Offered for sale, Kenneth W. Rendell, Inc., 154 Wells Ave., Newton, Mass., Feb. 1974, lot 2, $3950.
- Adams acknowledges receipt of Carey's letter, but has not as yet received a "sett of papers" sent to him. "It would not be difficult to prove, that the policy of this country is erroneous in several particulars. We have an uncertain, a fluctuating, a fallacious and iniquitous standard of value, or rather no fixed standard at all. This is neither consistant with honor, equity or humanity. It destroys our morals, and corrupts our elections. I presume also to think that our constitutions of government are not yet so perfect as they should be. The legislative powers are too much blended with the executive. Alas - all Europe is still groping in the dark! A violent effervescence in favor of representative government, without sufficient knowledge of the system or organization necessary to form it and preserve it."
- ALS offered for sale, Kenneth W. Rendell, Inc., Cat. No. 100 (Autographs & MSS of Presidents), 1974, Item 13, $3950. Same extract as on preceding slip, followed by an explanatory paragraph:
- "The signature was originally removed from the present letter by cutting a strip, approximately 3/4 of an inch wide, from the bottom of the letter. This strip has been expertly replaced with the matching paper from the address leaf, and a cut signature of the period of the letter (and quite possibly the original signature...) has been...replaced in its proper position...."
- and again, The Rendells, 1980, Catalogue 150 Item 40 $6000
- ALS offered for sale, Diana J. Rendell, Inc., Waban Mass., 1984, Catalogue 1, item 1, $9,500.
- ALS offered for sale, Diana J. Rendell, Inc., Waban MA, 1987, Catalogue 8, item 1, $10,000.
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