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Dates:

13 Feb. 1779

Original paper slip text:13 Feb. 1779.

Author's location:

Versailles, France

Original paper slip text:Versailles

Author:

Charles Gravier Vergennes

Original paper slip text:Comte de Vergennes

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Recipient:

John Adams

Original paper slip text:JA

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Length:

1 p. (in French; 1 p. translation)

Notes:

PCC No. 83, vol. II, p. 310–312 (no p. 311) (Reel 110)
Letter in JA's hand with his notation that Vergennes addressed it to: "Cet à Monsieur Monsieur [sic] Adams, l'un des Deputes du Congrès de l'Amerique Septentrionales, De Vergennes."

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From the collection: RG 59: General Records of the Dept. of State, Papers of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789

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