After its owner's death, the collection was stored for a time at the Adams Academy and later moved to the Thomas Crane Library. In 1895, John Quincy Adams' grandson Charles Francis Adams Jr. moved ...

The president was 89 years old and living out his final days at Peacefield, his farmhouse estate, in Quincy, Massachusetts, next to Boston, when he wrote the marriage wishes.

John Quincy Adams served as President of the United States from 1825 to 1829. Adams, defeated, returned to public life with his election to the House of Representatives in 1830.