Free-franked mailing panel, 4.5 x 3, addressed in the hand of John Quincy Adams to his nephew, “Lieut’t Thomas B. Adams, Fort Brooke, Tampa Bay, Florida,” and franked in the upper right, "J. Q. Adams." Postmarked at Washington on October 11th, with a notation to left edge dating the year to 1837. In fine condition. Thomas Boylston Adams, Jr. was the third child of Thomas Boylston Adams, the younger brother of John Quincy Adams, and the grandson of President John Adams. A lieutenant in the U.S. Army, Adams, Jr., died from a fever in Fort Dade, Florida, on December 11, 1837.
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