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January 15-16, 2013 - New York, NY<br />
SECOND SESSION<br />
Tuesday, January 15, 2013- 4:00 p.m.<br />
Lots 515-581<br />
<strong>Spink</strong> Smythe, New York<br />
AUTOGRAPHS<br />
515<br />
515 Adams, John Quincy Sixth President of the United States (1767-1848, served 1825-29); son of founder<br />
President John Adams. Free franked address panel “J. Q. Adams,” completed in his hand, n.d. addressed<br />
to Lemuel Humphrey Esq. / Boston or Weymouth / Mass.tts. Some light soiling does not impede free<br />
frank, otherwise VG. (photo) Est. 150-250<br />
516 American Asylum for the Deaf Interesting series of letters, including an interesting ALS by George<br />
Henry Loring, a deaf student at the Hartford American Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb, 4 full pages<br />
(possibly with missing pages, though the writer’s style makes it unclear if he has simply skipped from one<br />
sentence to another), 4to, January 27, 1818. He writes to an unidentified Hartford native in Washington<br />
DC that the school’s co-founder Laurent “Clerc...teaches the deaf and dumb, and they attend<br />
and write on the slate every day...during 3 hours or 2 hours...Mr. Clerc always teaches the deaf<br />
and dumb about the bible every Saturday...He gives Mr. [co-founder Thomas Hopkins] Gallaudet<br />
some signs for teaching his 7 pupils....You may tell [US Senator and Asylum benefactor Josiah<br />
Quincy] about my character. My eye is blind, but one is not...I am little and deaf and dumb boy.<br />
I am 11 years old. I was born in Boston...” With ALS from JL Skinner to Hartford pillar Nathaniel<br />
Terry, 1 page, Washington March 22, 1819. He thanks Terry “together with your other fellow citizens,<br />
for the successful, very honorable manner, in which you have accomplished the object of their<br />
wishes, in regard to the Connecticut Asylum. The Asylum...is one of those sublime refinements,<br />
which belong to the social state in its highest improvements...” With a pair of letters from 1821<br />
concerning the sale of land owned by the asylum in and near Tuscaloosa, Alabama. One 1821 letter with<br />
partial fold splits, otherwise all VG. The American Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb (now the American<br />
School for the Deaf) was the first such institution to be successfully established in the country (a similar<br />
school in Virginia lasted for just a year). [4] Est. 200-400<br />
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