John Quincy Adams to Peter S. Du Ponceau

Gentlemen

Your very obliging Letter of the 11th instt enclosing the proceedings and Resolutions of the American Philosophical Society, on the occasion of the decease of their venerated associates Thomas Jefferson, and John Adams, have been received and by me communicated to the members of the family of the latter now here—In their name and my own, I pray you Gentlemen to make acceptable to the Society our grateful acknowledgments, for the interest they have kindly taken in the bereavement peculiar to the families of the deceased, superadded to the common loss sustained, in the same event by our Country—If the Public Misfortune has been mitigated, by the extraordinary circumstances which attended the coincident departure of the two congenial Spirits, so distinguished in the origin and progress of our National Independence and Union, the private Sorrows of their relatives and kindred cannot but be soothed by that universal sympathy, which their fellow citizens have manifested towards them—

Accept also, for yourselves, Gentlemen, the thanks and respectful Salutation of your friend and associate
John Quincy Adams
RC (PPAmP: APS Archives); at head of text: “Peter S. Du Ponceau, Vice President and Robert Walsh junr Secretary of the American Philosophical Society Philadelphia”; endorsed: “Adams Jn Q Quincy 26 July recd 18 Aug 1826 reply to Condolence on Death of Jn Adams.”
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July 26, 1826
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