( conjectural )
11 Dec. 1778
Original paper slip text:[11 Dec. 1778]
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1 p.
- Date is derived from JA's replies on 7-8 Dec. to letters from Cushing and S. Adams of 21 and 25 Oct.
- Previously filed at PWaC Feinstone and on deposit at the American Philosophical Society Library
- ALs sold, Parke-Bernet, 8 October 1963, lot 1, $135.
- 1. ADAMS, JOHN. A.L.s. "J. Adams," 1 p., 12mo, Passy, 11 Dec. 1780. Written as American Ambassador to France To [Edme Jacques] Genet. The top is charred, affecting a few letters; silked.
- "I inclose you two private Letters, beg you would return them to me when you have done with. Mr. Cushing and Mr. A. are both of the Council, and very respectable Characters." Genet was in the interpreters' bureau at Versailles and an important personage in Franco-American relations at this crucial time. The letters were probably intended to be published in the Mercure de France as "American news," for it was Adams' habit to send such material to Genet.
- Information transferred from blue slip now deleted. ER 8/25/2015
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