This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/28/2014
Slip signed ''John Quincy Adams'', clipped from a letter. Beneath Adams' signature, ''Sec State 1823'' appears in pencil, which was the year Adams, as Secretary of State under Monroe, composed the seminal Monroe Doctrine curbing European imperialism by forbidding further colonization in the Americas. Measures 3.5'' x 1.75''. Toning, else near fine.