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Lot 1: ADAMS, ABIGAIL, FIRST LADY

ADAMS, ABIGAIL, FIRST LADY Autograph letter signed ("A.A."), 4 pages, bifolium (9 x 7 1/4 in.; 229 x 184 mm); a few tiny scattered holes, touching about four words, minor fold separation at the bottom. Red cloth folding-case, black morocco spine in f [...more]

 

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Lot 2: ADAMS, ABIGAIL, AS FIRST LADY

ADAMS, ABIGAIL, AS FIRST LADY Autograph letter signed ("A. Adams"), 1 1/2 pages (9 5/8 x 7 ¾ in.; 246 x 197 mm), Quincy, 18 October 1800, to Dr. Benjamin Rush, defending her husband and lashing out at the partisan attacks on him during the Presidenti [...more]

 

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Lot 3: ADAMS, ABIGAIL, FIRST LADY

ADAMS, ABIGAIL, FIRST LADY Autograph letter signed ("A. Abigail") on a half sheet of paper (4 1/2 x 7 1/2; 114 x 191), n.p., June 180?, thanking a woman for a letter and a gift of oranges and referring to a brief separation from her friends; edges a [...more]

 

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Lot 4: ADAMS, JOHN, AS FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT

ADAMS, JOHN, AS FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT Autograph letter signed ("John Adams"), 2 pages bifolium (10 x 8 in.; 254 x 203 mm), Philadelphia, 24 January 1795, to Winthrop Sargent, commenting on Native American artifacts and his general lack of interest in [...more]

 

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Lot 5: ADAMS, JOHN, AS SECOND PRESIDENT

ADAMS, JOHN, AS SECOND PRESIDENT Autograph letter signed ("John Adams"), 2 pages, 4to (9 3/4 x 8 in.; 248 x 203 mm), Quincy, 6 September 1800, to his son Thomas Boylston regarding a letter to Tench Coxe regarding Pinckney, written in the 1790s and re [...more]