Nov 09, 2004 - Sale 2021

Sale 2021 - Lot 11

Price Realized: $ 2,760
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
INCLUDES JQA AS PRESIDENT (AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY.) Group of 6 letters concerning the Society, from notables such as John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, Bushrod Washington and John Tappan. Format and condition vary, several of the letters glued together along the gutter. Vp, circa 1826

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The Adams letter is an Autograph Letter Signed, as President, declining an invitation to the 10th anniversary celebration of the American Bible Society, dated 1 May 1826 and with an additional franking signature. The Webster Autograph Letter Signed is also of note as it requests that the Society send copies of the Bible to "the new Republic of South America."