JOHN QUINCY ADAMS

JOHN QUINCY ADAMS

(1767 - 1848) Sixth President of the United States, Secretary of State under Monroe who principally formulated the Monroe Doctrine. Fine content and association A.L.S. "John Q. Adams" as his father President John Adams' Ambassador to Prussia, 1p. 4to. with integral address leaf, The Hague, May 2, 1797, to his brother Thomas Boylston Adams (1772-1832). Thomas was at the time serving as his secretary and the address leaf is directed to him in Paris. Adams opens his letter expressing his happiness that Thomas' trip from Brussels was pleasant and that he was pleased with what he had seen. He also notes that he has ordered bankers in Paris to extend him credit. He mentions that he plans to go to Amsterdam and is considering boarding a vessel bound for Lisbon. He continues: "...Your numerous friends here, always obligingly demand of your news. I go on in the usual stile, more and more dissatisfied with my solitude. No letters from America. Remember me particularly to my friends at Paris, and to Messrs: d'Aranjo and Brito. Tell the latter that I shall be happy to take any commands for his Country. He mentioned before he went from here that he might have some...After the letter, which you will find I have written this morning to Mr: Pitcairn you will not be sorry to see me come to a short conclusion with you..." Some negligible staining at margins, seal excised costing a few letters of text, else boldly written and very good. Francisco Jose Maria de Brito was the secretary of the Portuguese legation at The Hague, described by Adams as "a sensible well informed Man." Brito had likely accompanied Antonio de Araujo de Azevedo on the latter's special mission to France. In his letter to Joseph Pitcairn the same day, Adams commented on Algerian-American relations and criticized recent French attempts to instigate war with the United States. He also discredited rumors of James Madison's arrival in Paris as envoy extraordinary to France.