An intimate letter from President John Adams to a young bride, known only to one American family for 200 years, sold for $40,000 as part of a 'friendship album.'
Brackett apparently asked her famous neighbor for a testament to include in her keepsake.
John Adams, at age 89, wrote a letter to teenage bride-to-be Ellen Maria Brackett, congratulating her on the future nuptials. His jagged signature betrayed the challenges of old age."We've never seen an earlier letter from a president in a document like this," auctioneer Nathan Raab of Raab Collection told Fox News Digital.
Adams was one of the leading firebrands of the American Revolution and the architect of constitutional government known around the world today. His most notable writing came in a lifelong correspondence with his wife, Abigail, and also during a longtime late-life pen-pal relationship with fellow Founding Father and ex-president Thomas Jefferson. Adams’ letters are a vital primary source into the founding of the United States and have been the subject of nearly 250 years of intense scholarship.
"By the same token that the bearer hereof sat up with you last night," Adams wrote of himself to Abigail while courting her in 1762, "I hereby order you to give him as many kisses, and as many hours of your company after nine o'clock, as he pleases to demand, and charge them to my account." The president’s letter in the marriage album includes an impassioned plea to Brackett to never forget her roots as she prepared to move to Philadelphia with her future husband.
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