Adams Papers Digital Edition

Papers of John Adams, volume 21

From John Trumbull

To Wilhem & Jan Willink
Jonathan Williams Jr. to John Adams, February 1793 Williams, Jonathan, Jr. Adams, John
From Jonathan Williams Jr.
Sir.— Philadelphia     February 1793. 1

The inclosed memoir has received no other Publicity than a reading before the Philosophical Society and a few Copies I had struck off for particular distribution: I shall think myself honoured by your acceptance of one Copy.2

Permit me also to avail myself of your Influence with the Accademy of arts & sciences and Humane Society in Boston, to make one acceptable to each of these Institutions, when you return thither.—

I have the honor to be / with perfect Respect & Deference / Sir / Your most obedient & / most humble Servant

Jona Williams

RC (Adams Papers); internal address: “The Vice President of the / United States.”

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Blank in MS.

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Williams enclosed his Memoir on the Use of the Thermometer in Navigation, Phila., 1792, Evans, No. 25040.