ADAMS JOHN QUINCY Autograph Letter Signed

Sale 1985 - Lot 110

Price Realized: $ 1,955

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Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800

ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY. Autograph Letter Signed, to Sylvanus Bourne, asking for his assistance in procuring passage on an American ship to Algiers for two Algierian men in Amsterdam. 11/4 pages, folded 4to sheet with integral address leaf; usual folds. The Hague, 29 July 1796

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". . . If you can render these Gentlemen any service or civility during their stay at Amsterdam it will perhaps be beneficial to the public service. Should they need an American vessel, you will be able to assist them in procuring one, if there be any at Amsterdam with whose Captain they can agree, or inform them in case there should be none . . . They are called Sidi Mustapha Ben Braim Rais and his cousin, Sidi Mahomet Ben Mustapha Cagio . . ."