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Dates:

28 Apr. 1781

Original paper slip text:28 April 1781.

Author's location:

Paris

Original paper slip text:Paris

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Author:

John Laurens

Original paper slip text:John Laurens

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Recipient:

John Adams

Original paper slip text:to JA

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Length:

4 p.

Notes:

Copy in John Thaxter's hand. At the bottom of this document is JA's note of 18 June to Benjamin Franklin (Acc. 27103).
Franklin Papers, 22:50
See also Tr in MH:Sparks Transcripts, 57 (MSS Hist. [11]):246-249. LCF, 27 Dec. 1956
Note: This is followed, p. 249, by a JA note, dated 18 June 1781, to the effect that the original copy was given to Major Jackson to show to Benjamin Franklin. Thus, this entire letter is a transcript of Ac 7049.
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Printed :Printed (from this or another source) in So. Carolina Hist. &
Geneal. Mag., 1:145-147 (April 1900);

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