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Dates:

19 Apr. 1780

Original paper slip text:19 April 1780.

Author's location:

Paris, France

Original paper slip text:Paris

Author:

John Adams

Original paper slip text:JA

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Recipient:

Samuel Huntington

Original paper slip text:Samuel Huntington, President of Congress

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Length:

14 p.

Notes:

RG 59, PCC, No. 84, I
See JCC, 19:175 (19 Feb. 1781)
This is an account of Pownall's; Memorial to the Sovereigns of Europe ..., translated and abridged by JA as Pensees, q.v. in Adams Bibliog. It is in fact JA's "abridgment" we have dated [5 Sept. 1780] because sent (in French) to Luzac that day; see JA, Works, 7:248. to *** 248.

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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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