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Dates:

8 Feb. 1814

Original paper slip text:8 Feb. 1814.

Author's location:

St. Petersburg

Original paper slip text:St. Petersburg

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Author:

John Quincy Adams

Original paper slip text:JQA

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Recipient:

Levett Harris

Original paper slip text:to Levett Harris, Consul General of the U.S.

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Title:

Length:

2 p.

Notes:

Gift of Mr. Orrin June of the Wickersham Gallery, N.Y.C., to Oberlin College Library.
Offered for sale by Winifred A. Myers, 80 New Bond St., London, Catalogue No. 3, 1960, item 13, £15.
Sold, Sotheby's, London, 10 Nov. 1959, lot 143
143 Adams (John Quincy) A. L. s., 1/2 page, 4to [St. Petersburg], 8 February, 1814, to Levett Harris, American consul-general, asking him to forward a letter to the United States by the first safe opportunity
Endorsed by Harris: "Recd. just before my departure to join Mess. Gallatin & Bayard at Berlin and London". Gallatin and Bayard, with two others, negotiated the Treaty of Ghent which was signed on 24 December of this year and ended the war between the United States and Great Britain.
Information transferred from multiple blue slips now deleted. ER 2/9/2016

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