ADAMS JOHN QUINCY Autograph Letter Signed JQ Adams to George

Sale 2609 - Lot 149

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ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY. Autograph Letter Signed, "J.Q. Adams," to George Stillman Hillard, declining an invitation to speak for the Boston Lyceum due to health problems. 1/2 page, 4to; remnants of mounting along right edge verso, small closed tear at left edge, faint scattered staining, folds. Washington, 27 June 1838

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"The invitation to deliver an introductory Lecture to the Boston Lyceum next October is so highly gratifying to me that it is with mortification that I find myself constrained to decline it. Chiefly from a pulmonary weakness, which keeps me in constant and increasing uncertainty whether I can from day to day command the exercise of my voice, and which has already compelled me to decline several other similar invitations."