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Dates:

3 Aug. 1796

Original paper slip text:3 August 1796.

Author's location:

Quincy.

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Author:

John Adams

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Recipient:

John Rutherfurd

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Length:

2 p.

Notes:

ALS, offered for sale by Charles Hamilton, The Waldorf Astoria, New York, N.Y., Auction No. 70, item 25, 16 August 1973, $750.00.
25 ADAMS, JOHN. President. A.L.S. as Vice President, 2 full pages, 4to, Sober Hill in Quincy, August 3, 1796. To Senator (John) Rutherford of New Jersey, sending thanks for, "...Mr. Bordleys Notes [not present] on the outline of the 15th Chapter of the proposed general Report from The Board of Agriculture. Mr. Bordleys observations shew him to be a Farmer of uncommon intelligence...If I should ever have the courage to send Sir John Sinclair any Remarks on the Report I shall certainly inclose these. Thirty years ago I should have been all alive to such a correspondence: but thirty years I shall always be happy to hear of your Welfare and to thank in your discoveries in Agriculture or in Politicks or any other Science Literature or Scæne of Life, being with great and sincere Esteeb your friend and humble servant taken from Agriculture and applied to Law and Politicks, diminish a Mans ardour and destroy his Activity. You and I, and others like us, if such there are who retire in Summer to Tranquility and Sobriety (for that is the name of my Hill) without hearing a Dispute on Politicks are the happiest Mortals alive...we are no longer to meet an Elsworth [sic], a King, a Strong, or a Cabot to share our Toils and diminish our anxieties. We shall have good Men however in their Plans. The Political Atmosphere has been more serene this Summer than ever I knew it. After a storm generally comes a calm—I have not heard a Gale nor a Breeze. Long may the quiet last: that you and I may have Leisure to pursue our favorite Amusements, Studies and Experiments..." Tiny marginal tear, otherwise in very fine condition. (750.00)
Offered for sale by Joseph. M. Maddalena, Profiles in History, 9440 Santa Monica Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA 90210, 1990, Catalog 12, $25,000.
Offered for sale by the Manuscript Society, 9478 West Olympic Blvd, Beverly Hills, CA 90212-4299, 26 May 1990, item 8044, $1500–2500
ALS at Gilder Lehrman Collection, on deposit, Mar. 1996
Now at NHi, Gilder Lehrman Collection, on deposit. --SEG, 11/11

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