ALS signed “John Q. Adams,” one page, 7.5 x 9, January 19, 1798. Letter to Sylvanus Bourne, consul general to the United States at Amsterdam, written from Berlin. In full: "I congratulate you most cordially upon your arrival again at Amsterdam and especially upon your being so happily accompanied; a circumstance which from my own experience I can judge how conducive it will be to render your residence agreeable, and to give real satisfaction to your life. I thank you also for your kind congratulations, in which Mrs. Adams heartily joins me, wishing every happiness may attend your Lady and yourself. Mr. Murray may have informed you how unfortunate we were upon our arrival here in the illness of my wife and brother at the same time, together with some other untoward circumstances. At present however we are all well, and are getting comfortably settled; at least as well as we can expect in a strange Country, and a language with none of us well understand. I have letters from America of 2 December; but as you have probably advices of a yet later date I can communicate nothing new to you. Though more distant from each other and not so immediately connected in relation to public concerns as we were while you were before in Holland, I shall be extremely happy in the renewal of our correspondence as frequently as shall suit your convenience, being with every possible good wish for your welfare and prosperity." In fine condition. Accompanied by an impressive custom-made leatherbound presentation folder. In November 1794, a 26-year-old John Quincy Adams began his diplomatic career as the United States Minister to the Netherlands, a position held by his father some six years prior. When the elder Adams became president, he appointed his son as Minister to Prussia in 1797. In this role Adams signed the renewal of the Prussian-American Treaty of Amity and Commerce after negotiations with Prussian Foreign Minister Count Karl-Wilhelm Finck von Finckenstein.
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