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ALS signed “John Q. Adams,” one page, 8 x 10, March 13, 1796. Addressed from London, a handwritten letter to his brother, Thomas Boylston Adams, in full: “I am still to acknowledge the receipt of your favours of January 10. and 27. with the papers they enclosed. I expected indeed long before this to have been with you myself, and am not a little mortified that my stay here is yet indefinitely protracted. It is impossible however that much more time should elapse without releasing me from my present detention, and you may expect my return soon, though after fixing a term of ten days, as many weeks since, I shall not again presume to ascertain a precise time.
I had not received a copy of the letter from the Treasury Department of Novr. 3d before that which you sent me, and I can do nothing upon the subject of its contents untill my return. I send you by the present opportunity the articles of which you formerly enclosed to me a list, and a pair of Casimere breeches. The bill for the pocket books amounts to £6:0:6. There is nothing new to tell you from hence, but you will receive with this a few newspapers. I have only a few to spare, for I constantly send two or three sets to our friends in America. My latest letters from your father are of December 19. and from Quincy of Decr. 6. These are accounts here to the last of January. Nothing new.” In fine condition.
Written from London while serving as U.S. minister to the Netherlands, this letter finds the 28-year-old John Quincy Adams during a pivotal period in both his diplomatic career and family life. Adams remarks upon his unexpectedly prolonged stay in England, where he was conducting American business during Thomas Pinckney’s absence from the British post, and looks forward to returning home after months abroad. His references to correspondence from “your father,” then Vice President John Adams, were penned just months before the elder Adams would be elected the second president of the United States, while the younger Adams himself stood on the threshold of a distinguished diplomatic and political career. The following year he would marry Louisa Catherine Johnson in London before departing for Prussia on a new diplomatic assignment.
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