Browsing: Papers of John Adams, Volume 11

“All the gentlemen in Holland who were the most friendly to the American cause were excessively prone to have their spirits cast down into deep despondency, and absolute despair of our final success by any sudden news of unfortunate events. In one of these dispositions, the baron Van der Capellen wrote me a letter full of these causes of his own and others anxiety, to which I wrote him the following hasty answer.”