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PRESIDENTS.] MADISON, James. Autograph letter signed ("J. Madison"), as former President, to John Payne Todd (1792-1852), 13 November 1825. 1p., 4to, , WITH AUTOGRAPH FREE FRANK SIGNED ("Free James Madison"), age-toned, chipped at edges and worn at creases, two small losses catching portions of two words . AN ANGUISHED LETTER TO HIS TROUBLESOME STEPSON. "What shall I say to you? It is painful to utter reproaches; yet how can they be avoided?" Madison begins. "Your last letter to your Mother made us confident that we should see you in a few days. Weeks have passed without even a line explaining the disappointment, or soothing the anxieties of the tenderest of mothers, wound up to the highest pitch by this addition to your long & mysterious absence...You can not be too quick in affording some relief to her present feeling." -- ADAMS, John Quincy ALS TO PRESIDENT JAMES MONROE, London, 21 November 1815. 1p., folio, chipped at edges, closed tear along right edge . In the aftermath of the Treaty of Ghent, Adams reports on a military request: "the commander of the American squadron at Gibraltar had requested permission of the Lieutenant Governor of that place to deposit certain naval stores for safekeeping...This permission had been granted by the Lieutenant Governor , and had been approved by the Prince Regent..." -- ADAMS, J. Q. A.L.S. ("J. Q. Adams"), as Congressman, to Edmund Quincy, Quincy, Massachusetts, 14 October 1843. 1p., 4to, recipient's docket and traces of tipping on verso, small puncture hole lower left corner . PUTTING HIS CONSTITUENTS FIRST, John Quincy Adams has to curtail a social visit with a friend in favor of meeting with the voters. Quincy and his wife had invited Adams to their house on the 24th, an invitation the former President--and now seven term Congressman--would have happily accepted "but for arrangements already agreed upon with a view to the pressure of my time. I am to be at a public hotel at Dedham at 9 O'clock in the morning, to meet there any of my constituents who may wish to see and converse with me upon public or private business as they see fit..." Together three items . (3)
PRESIDENTS.] MADISON, James. Autograph letter signed ("J. Madison"), as former President, to John Payne Todd (1792-1852), 13 November 1825. 1p., 4to, , WITH AUTOGRAPH FREE FRANK SIGNED ("Free James Madison"), age-toned, chipped at edges and worn at creases, two small losses catching portions of two words . AN ANGUISHED LETTER TO HIS TROUBLESOME STEPSON. "What shall I say to you? It is painful to utter reproaches; yet how can they be avoided?" Madison begins. "Your last letter to your Mother made us confident that we should see you in a few days. Weeks have passed without even a line explaining the disappointment, or soothing the anxieties of the tenderest of mothers, wound up to the highest pitch by this addition to your long & mysterious absence...You can not be too quick in affording some relief to her present feeling." -- ADAMS, John Quincy ALS TO PRESIDENT JAMES MONROE, London, 21 November 1815. 1p., folio, chipped at edges, closed tear along right edge . In the aftermath of the Treaty of Ghent, Adams reports on a military request: "the commander of the American squadron at Gibraltar had requested permission of the Lieutenant Governor of that place to deposit certain naval stores for safekeeping...This permission had been granted by the Lieutenant Governor , and had been approved by the Prince Regent..." -- ADAMS, J. Q. A.L.S. ("J. Q. Adams"), as Congressman, to Edmund Quincy, Quincy, Massachusetts, 14 October 1843. 1p., 4to, recipient's docket and traces of tipping on verso, small puncture hole lower left corner . PUTTING HIS CONSTITUENTS FIRST, John Quincy Adams has to curtail a social visit with a friend in favor of meeting with the voters. Quincy and his wife had invited Adams to their house on the 24th, an invitation the former President--and now seven term Congressman--would have happily accepted "but for arrangements already agreed upon with a view to the pressure of my time. I am to be at a public hotel at Dedham at 9 O'clock in the morning, to meet there any of my constituents who may wish to see and converse with me upon public or private business as they see fit..." Together three items . (3)