Docno: PJA09d169
Author: JA
Recipient: Huntington, Samuel
Recipient: President of Congress
Date: 1780-05-03
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[dateline] Paris, 3 May 1780.
RC (
PCC, No. 84, II, f. 15–17).
LbC in John Thaxter's hand (
Adams Papers); notation by Thaxter: “N.B. Nos. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58 were delivered the 7th of May by Mr. Adams to Dr. Franklin, who was to send them with his own Dispatches to Captain John Paul Jones.”
printed:
Wharton, ed., Dipl. Corr. Amer. Rev.
, 3:648–649.
In this letter, received by Congress on 19 Feb. 1781, John Adams sent the terms of an Anglo-French cartel for the exchange of prisoners, signed at Versailles on 12 March and at London on 28 March, noting that the agreement brought honor to both sides.