Adams Family Correspondence, volume 5

416 John Adams to Abigail Adams, 1 August 1784 JA AA

1784-08-01

John Adams to Abigail Adams, 1 August 1784 Adams, John Adams, Abigail
John Adams to Abigail Adams
My dearest Friend The Hague Aug. 1. 1784

Your favour without a Date,1 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 Helvoetsluis 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. 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 April2 my Approbation of his Views, and hoped he had the Letter before you Sailed.

Yours without Reserves. John Adams

RC (Adams Papers); endorsed by JQA: “Mr. Adams. Augt. 1. 1784.”

1.

That of 30 July , above.

2.

To Royall Tyler, above.

John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 1 August 1784 JA JQA

1784-08-01

John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 1 August 1784 Adams, John Adams, John Quincy
John Adams to John Quincy Adams
My dear son The Hague August 1. 1784

I have the Pleasure of yours of July 30. and advise you to purchase the Coach and prepare every Thing to set off with me to Dover in a Week from this Day. I will not loose a Moment, of the agreable Company, that I can avoid. Indeed I have repented 20 times that I did not go with you. The Pas of Calais and the Pas of Harwich will make me sick, but do me no harm.

Your Father

Purchase Johnsons Lives of the Poets1 which will amuse Us on the Road. We will take the Journey fair and easy.

Mr. Elworthys Bills I will bring with me and pay in London.2

RC (Adams Papers).

1.

JA's library has Samuel Johnson's The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, London, 1783, in four volumes. Each volume has JA's bookplate; vol. 3 has his autograph. Catalogue of JA's Library .

2.

JA wrote this sentence in the left margin.

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