Adams Papers Digital Edition

Adams Family Correspondence, volume 5

Abigail Adams to Cotton Tufts

Elizabeth Cranch to Abigail Adams
John Adams and Abigail Adams to Benjamin Franklin, 11 September 1784 JA AA Franklin, Benjamin

1784-09-11

 John Adams and Abigail Adams to Benjamin Franklin, 11 September 1784 Adams, John Adams, Abigail Franklin, Benjamin
John Adams and Abigail Adams to Benjamin Franklin
Saturday Morning sept 11. 1784

Mr. and Mrs. Adams present their Compliments to Dr. Franklin and hope to have the Honour of his company to day at Dinner, with his Grandson Mr. Bache.1 They also beg the Favour of him to lend them the Assistance of one of his servants this morning if he can without Inconvenience as they are so unlucky as to have both their Men servants confined to their Chambers by very serious Sickness.

RC in JA's hand (PPAmP: Franklin Papers); addressed: “His Excellency Dr. Franklin en son Hotel a Passy”; endorsed: “Adams 11 Sept. 1784.”

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Benjamin Franklin Bache had accompanied his grandfather to Europe in 1776, was a schoolmate of JQA in Paris in 1778, and later studied in Geneva. He resumed his residence in Paris in 1783, and returned to Philadelphia with Franklin in 1785. JA, Diary and Autobiography , 2:301, note 1; 4:10; JQA, Diary , 1:181, 182; DAB .