Spring Auction 2018
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 4/26/2018
Nice free frank from John Quincy Adams as secretary of state to Elisha Babcock, printer-editor of the Hartford American Mercury. It would be interesting to find out what letter this once contained within, since Babcock was a leading printer of a popular news paper started in Nov. 14, 1785. With the issue of Jan. 6, 1813, Elisha Babcock took his son Charles into partnership under the firm name of Elisha Babcock & Son. It became the leading Democratic newspaper in Connecticut. The Mercury had a contemporary reputation for outspokenness and for many years was the state's leading reform paper
John Quincy Adams Free Frank
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