[Rarebooks] FS: Fine Letter by Charles Francis Adams to George W. Curtis

[Charles Agvent]

ADAMS, Charles Francis. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS). Quincy [MA], 1 
October 1874. Three-page letter on both sides of a 10" x 8" sheet to 
author and editor George W. Curtis responding about a series of lectures 
being organized by a man named Carpenter. Adams says he has an aversion 
"to all the system of lecturing which had been carried on so 
systematically of later years.... It would be a great inconvenience to 
me to break off from the prosecution of my present undertaking, which 
will be likely to absorb all my remaining days of usefulness.... He 
mentioned your name, that of Dr. Woolsey and Mr. Schurz as within the 
perview of the plan. What could I say but that if gentlemen of that mark 
were ready to advance, I could not fall back?" Curtis, editor of 
HARPER'S WEEKLY during the Civil War years and one of the most 
influential American journalists of any day, also was known for his 
speeches, one of which was a tribute to Charles Sumner. Curtis also had 
the honor of helping Thoreau build his cabin on Walden Pond. Fine letter 
from one important American figure to another. Near Fine.

Charles Francis Adams Sr. (August 18, 1807 - November 21, 1886) was an 
editor, writer, politician, and diplomat. He was a son of John Quincy 
Adams and grandson of John Adams, about whom he wrote a major biography. 
Adams served two terms in the Massachusetts State Senate before running 
unsuccessfully as vice-presidential candidate for the Free Soil Party in 
the election of 1848 on a ticket with former president Martin Van Buren. 
During the Civil War, Adams served as the United States Minister to the 
United Kingdom under Abraham Lincoln, where he played a key role in 
keeping the British government neutral and not diplomatically 
recognizing the Confederacy. (#020898)   $350

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