Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848

Letter from John Nelson Lloyd, Lloyd Neck, to George W. Strong, New York, regarding Strong's dyspepsia and that which killed his wife and from which his son John suffers, the depression of Strong's brother, Thomas, following the death of his daughter, Eliza Griffing, the health of Sarah Cogswell, Jane Meng whose husband had died earlier in the year, the visit of Andrew Jackson to New Haven and comparing him with John Quincy Adams, and the likelihood of cholera reappearing in New York; hole in second leaf with loss to one line.

Letter dated April 23, 1846, from Geo. [George] Bradburn in Nantucket [Massachusetts] to [Lysander] Spooner discussing general news of the abolitionist movement.

Personal letter, circa 1820, from Abigail Adams to her son, John Quincy Adams.

On the occasion of General Lafayette's visit to New York City in 1824 the New York Common Council prepared this commemorative volume (1824-1825) containing transcripts of resolutions and addresses of various organizations as a duplicate of the volume presented to Lafayette. The volume includes numerous specimens of decorative and figural penmanship by Isaac F.

Abigail Adams, who served as the second First Lady of the United States, was the wife of President John Adams, and the mother of President John Quincy Adams. Correspondence between Abigail Adams and family and friends, including her uncle Cotton Tufts, and her son John Quincy Adams. The letters discuss matters relating to family, illness, personal finances and the running of a household, the U.S. Congress at Philadelphia, and American politics. One letter, signed, dated Boston, July 20, 1787, to Hon. Cotton Tufts, comments upon Shays' Rebellion.