22 Apr. 1820
Original paper slip text:22 April 1820.
Montezillo.
Original paper slip text:Montezillo.
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- Offered for sale on ebay by seller sethkaller in February 2016 for an asking price of $35,000. ER 2/23/2016
- Sold in Christie's Auction, Charles E. Sigety Coll., New York, 12 June 2015, for $16,250. ER 7/31/15.
- Offered for sale, Christie's, Charles E. Sigety Coll., New York, estimate of $12,000-$18,000. SEG accession request pending, 6/12/2015.
- Ms Letter Signed offered for sale, Item # 4848, Gallery of History, Las Vegas, July 1993.
- LS offered for sale, K. W. Rendell, Inc., 154 Wells Ave., Newton, Mass., Feb.?1974, lot 3, $2000.and again, Cat. No. 100 (Autographs & MSS of Presidents), 1974, Item 16, $2000.and again, Cat. No. 150, Item 42, $4250
- LS offered for sale, Kenneth W. Rendell, Inc., Somerville, Mass., May 1972, Cat. no. 74, lot no. 1, $1750.
- 1972 and 1974 sale information relocated from LbC slip. ER 7/31/15.
- LS offered for sale, Goodspeed's Flying Quill, Aug. 1941, item 4, $60.00.
- Adams thanks his correspondent for his translation of Europe after the Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle by Archbishop de Pradts. He praises it as a work that "ought to be in the hands of every public man in America" because of the profound knowledge which it exhibits of European affairs and the world in general. "I presume that the lame Bishop is in the secret and I should not wonder if Louis the 18th has consented to its publication, for it counsels him to a course of conduct which can alone save his family from the fate of the Stuarts...." Adams believes that the main points of the book are of great interest to Americans. "This country is as deeply interested in the investigation of the present state of society in Europe, as any nation of Europe is, and the general aphorism to be deduced from the whole, by the United States is - that perpetual neutrality in all the wars of Europe - a total abstraction from all their quarrels is not only a moral and religious duty, but their highest and soundest political interest. If it be possible and as far as lieth in us, live peaceably with all Europe—it is our duty to that quarter of the world—as well as to ourselves—for by intermingling in their affairs we shall only be a plague to them, as they will be a torment to us. For five and forty years I have invariably preached the doctrine of American neutrality, but we should keep aloof from Europe, and hold her aloof from us—peace and friendship with all—perplexing political alliances with none, has been one of my fundamental maxims for almost half a century. And this whole work of Tallyrande and perhaps a council of the wisest men in France is as demonstrative a proof of the rectitude of this principle as anything I have ever read."
- Electronic image saved to archive. ER 9/21/2015
- Information transferred from multiple blue slips now deleted. ER 3/25/2016
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