24 Dec. 1782
Original paper slip text:24 Dec. 1782.
Paris
Original paper slip text:Paris
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- Corrected institutional code from NHi to NN Gilder Lehrman.- GKF, 2/2/26
- [Previously on deposit at NHi, NNPM]
- DIgital image from Gilder Lehrman added to Electronic Image Archive. ER 5/16/2016
- Not in Wharton
- Profiles in History Insider's Report Sept. 1993
- ALS sold at Christie's New York 9 June 1993 for $29,900.
- ALs offered for sale, Kenneth W. Rendell, Inc., Catalogue 45 (1970), $1250.00
- ALS offered for sale, Parke-Bernet, Sale No. 2320, item 1 (12 Jan. 1965)
- Anderson Gall., N.Y., 17-18 May 1926 (Williams sale, pt. 2), lot 714, $300.00
- Anderson Gall., N.Y., 28 April 1915 (Joline sale), lot 421, $85.00
- ALs sold, Stan. V. Henkles [sale conducted for Thos. Birch's Sons, Phila.], 6-7 Dec. 1892 (J.C. McGuire Estate), lot 355
- Adams, John (Signer from Massachusetts). A.L.s., 1 p., 4to; Paris, 24 Dec. 1792. To "Mr. Dumas" [probably C.F.W. Dumas, Chargé d'Affaires in The Hague]. Backed with heavy paper. Ink smear in first line. Adams as minister plenipotentiary to the United Provinces had encountered continuous frustrations in the attempt to negotiate a Dutch alliance and loan under terms satisfactory to France. In this letter he asks Dumas to send him a copy of Pensees Sur la Revolution, inquires for news of his son, and ends with a plaintive, though timely, comment: "We cannot say whether we are to have Peace or not. I wish the definitive Treaty were signed or the Negotiations broken off that I may return to you."
- Redated from 24 Dec. 1792 based on internal evidence, RFK, 17 July 2008
- Information transferred from blue slip now deleted. ER 5/24/2016
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