Presidential Letters |
John Quincy Adams. Autograph letter, signed, to John B. Davis. January 5, 1830. Folger Shakespeare Library.
John Quincy Adams. Letter to James Hackett. Manuscript, Washington, 7 February 1839. Folger Shakespeare Library.
The Folger manuscript collection includes, among other presidential materials, a Shakespeare passage written by John Adams, a letter from John Quincy Adams that incorporates a Shakespeare quotation, a nineteenth-century facsimile of another John Quincy Adams letter, and correspondence by Grover Cleveland from his post-presidential years.
Select the facsimile letter from the list at left to read some of John Quincy Adams's comments on Hamlet to the American actor James Hackett.