Letter from the Secretary of State, Transmitting the Return of American Seamen as Registered in the Several Collection Districts, in the Three First Quarters of the Year 1822
Printed By Gales & Seaton, 1823. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Good / No Jacket. Item #L059784
Slight stains, creases, rubbing, browning and/or foxing throughout (chiefly to extremities); previous owner's pencil annotations (upper wrapper); slight wear to foredges and lower edges. 17 pages. Upper wrapper title. At head of title: 91 (in brackets). 'Abstract' (page 5) of American seamen (both native-born and naturalized citizens), with Adams' introductory letter; dated February 3, 1823 ('Read, and referred to the Committee on Commerce'; upper wrapper). Notable also for the upper wrapper pencil annotations in an unidentified holograph: 'Reports from / State / Navy / Postmaster + / Memorials : 2d Sess [word unclear] Copy'. Adams (1767-1848), 6th US President (1825-29), eldest son of John and Abigail Adams; graduate of Harvard University (1787), elected to the US Senate (1803; resigned 1808); appointed to the US Supreme Court (1811) but declined; Secretary of State (1817-25) and real promulgator of what is known as the 'Monroe Doctrine'; elected to the US Congress (1831); noted for his defense of the participants in the slave revolt aboard the Amistad before the Supreme Court (1841).
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