1From John Quincy Adams to George A. Otis, 24 August 1817 (Adams Papers)
Of your qualifications for filling with honour to yourself and credit to your Country any Consular Situation in Europe to which you might be appointed, I am so well assured from the personal knowledge which I am happy to have had the opportunity of obtaining, and the fairness and respectability of your character, that no reference to the testimony of any other person can be necessary. Of not...