Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848

The Abernethy manuscript miscellany collection is comprised of 19 boxes (18 regular and 1 oversize) organized alphabetically by author last name. This collection includes original manuscript and typescript letters and writings from American authors throughout the 19th and 21st centuries. Transcriptions of original manuscript letters are available for some items.

One holograph letter dated January 25, 1820, from John Quincy Adams, Department of State, to Isaac Tichenor, Esquire.

The letter reads, "I have this day complied with the request which you have made of me in your note of the 20th instant, in behalf of the Trustees of the College at Middlebury, in the state of Vermont, by causing a copy of Seybest's Statistical Annals to be addressed to the Rev. Dr. Bates, their President."

Two-sided card with newspaper clipping and picture of John Quincy Adams (?) as well as the hymn, "The Hour Glass," handwritten by John Quincy Adams.