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Dates:

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Sep. 1780 to Nov. 1780

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Author:

John Adams

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Title:

"Abridgment" or "Translation" of former

Thomas Pownall

Original paper slip text:Gov. Thomas Pownall's

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Memorial) to the Sovereigns of Europe, London, 1780; enclosed in

John Adams

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Jean Luzac

Original paper slip text:Luzac,

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5 Sept. 1780 (Works, 7:248, see slip

023429

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Document Type:

JA—Essays and Addresses (non-official)

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Notes:

Sabin attributes the Translation to
Edmund Jenings
Original paper slip text:Edmund Jenings,
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but Jenings probably only translated JA's English "Abridgment" into French (see JA to Jenings, 23 Sept. 1780, Works, 9:509, see slip
023487
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), with Pownall's Memorial actually translated into French by
Addenet
Original paper slip text:Addenet
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. Jenings published it in England.
A portion of the "Translation" in JA's hand is at [8 July 1780], see slip
023178
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. There are other references in JA's Works to this bit of propaganda, the bibliographical history of which is highly confused. See also JA's letters to Boston Patriot, which confuse matters further; and Sabin 64827.
For another version, see JA to
Samuel Huntington
Original paper slip text:Samuel Huntington
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(President of Congress),19 April 1780, slip
022685
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, which is an RC in the PCC (Ac 5119). For the LbC of this letter, see slip
022686
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Printed :Published in French at Amsterdam, Nov. ? 1780, under title of Pensées sur la révolution de l'Amérique-Unie extraites de l'ouvrage Anglois intitule: Memoire... (Sabin 64829
copy of 1st or 2d edn. [1781] at Harvard)
and also in English as A Translation of the Memorial to the Sovereigns of Europe...into Common Sense and Intelligible English, London, 1781 (Sabin 35987
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John Adams

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library in BPL).

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