On peace negotiations to end the War of 1812

Lot 53
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Lot 53 | On peace negotiations to end the War of 1812
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MONROE, James (1758-1831). Letter signed ("Jas Monroe") as Secretary of State to John Quincy Adams, Department of State, 8 January 1814.

One page, 300 x 200mm (weak folds repaired on verso, light toning, small loss at bottom left margin).

Monroe offers additional guidance for John Quincy Adams's upcoming mission to negotiate peace with Great Britain to end the War of 1812. Monroe, observing that he had already communicated President Madison's instructions "to the joint commission the instructions of the President, founded on the recent overture of the British Government, to open a negotiation directly with the United States at Gothenburg, which it was proper to give you on the present state of the business, I have only to add in this Letter to you the desire of the President, that, on leaving St. Petersburg you will commit to Mr. Harris, the charge of affairs in your absence."

Adams, who been serving as United States Minister to Russia since 1809, departed St. Peterburg to attend the peace conference in Sweden on 28 April 1814. Upon reaching Stockholm he learned that the venue had been changed from Göteborg to Ghent, where, at the end of June, he joined fellow American peace commissioners Henry Clay, James Gallatin, Jonathan Russel, and James Bayard. (Adams, Memoir, 58-59). Negotiations with the British delegation began in August—concluding with the Treaty of Ghent, signed on 24 December 1814, and ending the War of 1812.
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