ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY. Partly-printed Document Signed, as Secretary of State, passport for Frederick Warren Goddard, a 19-year old traveller.1 page, 4to, with an engraved American eagle at top and a white paper seal; usual folds. Attractively matted and

ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY. Partly-printed Document Signed, as Secretary of State, passport for Frederick Warren Goddard, a 19-year old traveller.1 page, 4to, with an engraved American eagle at top and a white paper seal; usual folds. Attractively matted and framed. Washington, 23 June1819 E800/1,200 An 1859 clipping from the Syracuse Standard relates Goddard's story: he drowned in Lake Zurich in a boating accident in August 1820. William Wordsworth was in Zurich at the time and commemorated the incident in his "Lines Upon a Young American, Mr. F.W. Goddard, who was Drowned in the Lake of Zurich."