Adams Family Correspondence, volume 7
1786-05-22
I have time only to write you a line or two, not expecting captain Bigolow to Sail so Soon.
I was yesterday informd that he would not go till the middle of the week, but this morning he
has sent for the Letters. I thought your sister had letters, but she says they are not ready.
She wrote you by mr Jenks 3 weeks ago.1 I must
refer you to your Friend Storer for further information as I have written to him more
particularly. I send you a Book2 which was
presented us by the Author. Your Friend Murry dinned with us yesterday and wonders he does not
hear from you. Tis probable you will meet with some curious annecdotes in the English papers
respecting Lord Gorge Gorden, mr Simon Tufts and mr Lewis Gray, Who took it upon them to
assert that your Pappa received his Sallery Quarterly from Count d A
AA2's No. 13 to JQA, not found, was carried by John Jenks (AA2 to JQA, 25 April, above).
Possibly François Soulés, Histoire des troubles de l'Amérique
anglaise, 2 vols., London, 1785, a set of which, with JQA's bookplate and
JA's notes throughout volume two is now at MQA. Soulés was known to the Adamses and had borrowed money from
JA (Soulés to JA, 9 June 1785, 3 Feb. 1786, both Adams Papers). JQA acknowledged the receipt of Soulés'
volumes in his letter to AA, 30
Dec., below, but they were sent via Callahan, not Bigelow (
Diary
, 2:115–116).
See AA to Cotton Tufts, 22 July, below.