Letter from John Quincy Adams to the Union Philosophical Society

Former President and Representative John Quincy Adams writes to members of a committee of Union Philosophical Society (UPS) members and declines an invitation to deliver an address before a joint meeting of the Belles Lettres and Union Philosophical Society at Dickinson College. The members of on the UPS committee are Richard Van Boskirk Lincoln ('41), Richard McAlister ('40), Benjamin Morsell McConley ('41), Henry Augustus Muhlenberg ('40), Charles Patterson Wilkins ('42).