$4,305
Adams, John Quincy (1767-1848) Autograph Letter Signed, Washington, D. C., 28 May 1832. Wove paper bifolium inscribed on one page. To Robert Walsh Jr. (1785-1859), editor of the Philadelphia National Gazette, on a number of topics, sending corrected copies of his Bank and Tariff Reports [not present], straightening out some misquotes of Pope, and ending with the hope that his bank report would be "a tribute of justice to Alexander Hamilton." Light folds, neat repair, very good, in a custom case, 10 x 8 in. "My dear Sir, I enclose you without a moment of delay a copy of the two minority Bank Reports. The errors of the Press, of mine, are corrected and I must intreat you that they may be corrected in the Edition of them to be appended to the Review. The correction for which I am most solicitous is that of the couplet from Pope, which the critic in the New York American undertook to improve. The and instead of or was a gross blunder of my own. The substitution of 'offence' for 'affront,' in the second line, was a softening in tenderness to our clear-headed Chairman; but as he has declared War, I think the text of my couplet may be restored. In my controversy with Russell a critic in your Gazette charged me with bad Latin for quoting the 'piscemur venemur ut olum' of Horace and now a critic at New York charges me with bad poetry for quoting two of the most beautiful lines of Pope-- so much for criticism. I did expect that my Bank Report would give pleasure to my friends a Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2016-10-30
