The enclosed pamphlet by Adams, The Duplicate Letters, the Fisheries and the Mississippi. Documents relating to transactions at the Negotiation of Ghent (Washington, 1822; Poor, Jefferson’s Library description begins Nathaniel P. Poor, Catalogue. President Jefferson’s Library, 1829 description ends , 11 [no. 691]), grew out of a political controversy that began in 1821 when rumors arose that Adams had proposed an article in the peace treaty of Ghent that would have granted Great Britain navigation rights to the Mississippi in exchange for American fishing privileges in Newfoundland. John Floyd, a congresssman from Virginia, called on Jonathan Russell, a member with Adams of the peace delegation and a political ally of their fellow delegate Henry Clay, to produce a copy of his 1815 letter to President James Monroe on the subject. Russell responded with a version that varied in crucial ways from the original. Viewing this as an attempt to undermine his presidential ambitions and boost those of Clay, Adams responded with this work, which juxtaposed a transcription of the actual letter sent to Monroe with Russell’s later version (Josiah Quincy, Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams [1860], 125–8).