Adams Papers Digital Edition

Papers of John Adams, volume 16

To Rolland & Co.

To John Jay
John Adams to Thomas Barclay, 11 May 1784 Adams, John Barclay, Thomas
To Thomas Barclay
Dear Sir. The Hague May 11. 1784.

I have this Moment rec’d your Letter of the 6th: and have now only to say, that if you have not absolutely engaged the House I desire you would not engage it at all, and if you have engaged it, to get released from that Engagement upon the easiest Terms you can— This is an Unlucky Change of Mind But I shall not change again.1

With great Esteem, your &c.

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LbC in JQA’s hand (Adams Papers); internal address: “Mr: Barclay.”; APM Reel 107.

 1.

But see JA’s letter to Barclay of 27 July, below.