The Hague Aug. 1. 1784
My dearest Friend
Your favour without a Date
[Abigail to John, 30 July 1784]
, just now received and Mr. Jeffersons Arrival, a Month sooner than he expected, have indeed changed my Plan. Stay where you are, and amuse yourself, by Seeing what you can, untill you See me. I will be with you in Eight Days at farthest, and sooner, if possible. I will cross from Helvoet to Harwich, by the Packet of the day after tomorrow if I can. If this is impossible, by the next. I must take Leave, here, and write to Paris and arrange my Household, as well as I can before I depart. But I will join you in London.
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Let
your Son buy his Coach, and have
every Thing ready, to depart for Dover, for I cannot Stay a Day in London. I must join my Colleagues in Paris without Loss of Time.
Your Daughter may write
her Freind as
favourably as she pleases. I wrote him on the 3 of April my Approbation of his Views, and hoped he had the Letter before you Sailed.
Yours without Reserves
John Adams.
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