CATALOGUE THREE HUNDRED THIRTY-ONE Archives & Manuscripts WILLIAM REESE COMPANY 409 Temple Street New Haven, CT 06511 (203) 789-8081 A Note This catalogue is made up of manuscripts and archives, mostly acquired in recent months. Chronologically material ranges from Domingo Irala’s account of his ef- forts as a conquistador in South America in 1555 to a Jacqueline Kennedy letter as newly elected First Lady in 1960. Notable items include a superb John Quincy Adams letter about slavery; a Jefferson letter on the French Revolution; a Sam Houston letter in the midst of the Texas Revolution; an important Pierre DuPont manuscript; a remarkable manuscript from the Antarctic and Oregon portions of the Wilkes Expedition; important colonial road maps; a series of significant Civil War archives; a George Washington letter about a prize donkey; important John Wood manuscripts on the flight of Jefferson Davis after the fall of the Confederacy; a topographical drawing by Robert E. 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Abeel, Johannes: [AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM JOHN ABEEL TO EDWARD HYDE, VISCOUNT CORNBURY AND COLONIAL GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK, REGARDING PAY FOR ARMY PERSONNEL]. Albany. June 2, 1702. [2]pp. plus integral address leaf. Folio. Old fold lines. Light soiling, some bleedthrough of ink. Later ownership ink stamp on verso of address leaf. Very good. Albany official Johannes Abeel (signed as John Abeel) writes to colonial gover- nor Edward Hyde regarding payments made according to Hyde’s orders. Abeel (1667-1711) was an Albany native who held various local offices, including mayor of Albany. In 1702, Abeel was serving as recorder for the city, which is likely why he was responsible for overseeing the dispersal of payments. Hyde was colonial governor of New York and New Jersey from 1701 to 1708, during which time he proved an unpopular administrator both in the colonies and at home in England. Abeel’s letter lists those persons to whose companies he made payment (the errors are his own): I have payd according your Excellencys order to Matthew Shanke Lieut. of Col. Richard Ingoldsby’s companee four weeks subsistance commencin from the ninth day of May to the sixth day of June according to the role deliver to mee, for 3 lieut, 3 sergt, 3 corprall, 2 drums & 85 private men the sum of ninty pound ninten schill. & eight pens; and to Henry Hollind lieut of Capt James Weemes compn. for 1 capt, 2 lieut, 3 sergt, 3 corprll., 2 drums & 88 privat men the sum of ninete five pound seventeen schill. & 2 pens.... He includes a postscript note in which he indicates that his wife wishes both the governor and his lady well. A scarce and early colonial document dealing with administrative affairs and defense on the frontier. $1750. From One President to Another 2. Adams, John Quincy: [AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM JOHN QUINCY ADAMS TO JAMES MADISON, SENDING THE FORMER PRESIDENT WARM REGARDS AND ADAMS’ RE- CENTLY PUBLISHED PAMPHLET]. Washington. Oct. 11, 1822. 1p. Minor toning, old folds, two separation neatly mended, tipped to a larger sheet. Very good. A warm and conciliatory letter from a future president of the United States to a former president. During his time as Secretary of State under Monroe, Adams writes to Madison at Montpelier. The letter reads, in full: Dear Sir, In requesting your acceptance of the copy herewith transmitted of a Collection of Documents recently published by me, I think it necessary to ask of your indulgence to overlook that part of it which is personally controversial. The transactions to which it relates having occurred during your Administra- tion and the discussion involving in some degree principles and measures sanctioned by you, I have thought they would not be without interest to you, on that account, as well as because they are of no inconsiderable moment to the permanent welfare of the Union. I have much satisfaction also in being thus offered the occasion of tendering anew the grateful sense I entertain of that public confidence with which you honour’d me at a time when, as now appears, there were not wanting efforts then unknown to me to shake it. I remain with great Respect, Dear Sir, your very faithful and humble Servt. John Quincy Adams. The “Collection of Documents” to which Adams refers is The Duplicate Letters, the Fisheries and the Mississippi. Documents Relating to Transactions at the Negotiation of Ghent (Washington, 1822; Shoemaker 7740). “This pamphlet was an answer to an attack on Adams by Jonathan Russell over proposals made during the Anglo- American negotiations at Ghent on the subject of the navigation of the Mississippi River. Adams’s rebuke was so overwhelmingly successful that thereafter to destroy someone’s reputation before the public was known as to ‘jonathanrussell’ someone” (founders.archive.gov/documents/Madison/04-02-02-0506). Madison would have been keenly interested in the work, which did indeed discuss many policies and decisions of his administration. The present letter was previously sold at Parke- Bernet on Nov. 13, 1968, lot 4. THE PAPERS OF JAMES MADISON, RETIREMENT SERIES 2:586-587. $11,000. Presentation Copy from Adams 3. Adams, John Quincy: ORATION ON THE LIFE AND CHARAC- TER OF GILBERT MOTIER DE LAFAYETTE. DELIVERED AT THE REQUEST OF BOTH HOUSES OF THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, BEFORE THEM, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AT WASHINGTON, ON THE 31st DE- CEMBER, 1834. Washington: Printed by Gales and Seaton, 1835. 94pp. Contemporary red straight-grained morocco, ruled in gilt, spine elaborately gilt. Slight darkening to boards, but a near fine copy. In a red half morocco and cloth box. A copy of Adams’ speech honoring the memory of Revolutionary War hero Marquis de Lafayette. This copy is in a presentation binding of red straight-grained morocco, of the sort favored by the Adams family for decades, and is printed on thick paper. John Quincy Adams devoted his entire career to government service. The son of President John Adams, he himself served as the sixth president, as a U.S. Senator from 1803 to 1808, as Secretary of State from 1817 to 1825, and in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1831 until his death in the U.S. Capitol in 1848. Presented to Isaac McKim (1775-1838), who served as aide-de-camp to Gen. Samuel Smith during the War of 1812 and was involved in the defense of Baltimore. When Gen. Smith resigned from Congress to take a seat in the Senate, McKim was elected to fill the vacancy. McKim served in the House of Representatives as a Congressman from Maryland from 1823 to 1825 and from 1833 to 1838. He temporarily left national politics to become a director of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad from 1827 to 1831, and he was an officer of the American Society for Colonizing the Free People of Color of the United States. Adams provides a review of Lafayette’s contributions to American independence and his activities in the decades after the Revolutionary War, particularly his involve- ment in the French Revolution and various French governments which followed. In this brief biography, Adams reflects “upon the life and character of a man whose life was, for nearly threescore years, the history of the civilized world – of a man, of whose character, to say that it is indissolubly identified with the Revolution of our Independence, is little more than to mark the features of his childhood – of a man, the personified image of self-circumscribed liberty.” An eight-page appendix records Congressional actions related to the death of Lafayette. SABIN 295. JACKSON, p.208. $7500. A Magnificent John Quincy Adams Letter Attacking the Institution of Slavery and Predicting the Progress of the United States: “...It shocks the moral sense of every soul not contaminated by the practice of oppression.” 4.