ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY, President. Autograph letter signed ("John Q. Adams") to "My dear brother," Washington, D.C., 25 October 1803, 1 page, 4to, 250 x 199mm. (9 3/4 x 7 7/8in.). Adams is grateful for "the trouble you took in attempting to procure me a Swiss boy...it would be much for my convenience and that of my family to have one." He remarks on the news of the ratification, by Congress of the Louisiana Purchase: "You will have seen by the newspapers that the great question upon the Louisiana Treaty was decided before I got here [in Congress]; but we have some other questions resulting from it on which my vote will be called for among the rest....I dined yesterday with Mr. Crouch, who is about to publish a volume of Reports of Cases adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States, since they have held their sessions in this City....They tell me we [Congress] are not to sit beyond Christmas time...."

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ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY, President. Autograph letter signed ("John Q. Adams") to "My dear brother," Washington, D.C., 25 October 1803, 1 page, 4to, 250 x 199mm. (9 3/4 x 7 7/8in.). Adams is grateful for "the trouble you took in attempting to procure me a Swiss boy...it would be much for my convenience and that of my family to have one." He remarks on the news of the ratification, by Congress of the Louisiana Purchase: "You will have seen by the newspapers that the great question upon the Louisiana Treaty was decided before I got here [in Congress]; but we have some other questions resulting from it on which my vote will be called for among the rest....I dined yesterday with Mr. Crouch, who is about to publish a volume of Reports of Cases adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States, since they have held their sessions in this City....They tell me we [Congress] are not to sit beyond Christmas time...."