Papers of John Adams, volume 21
r.13. 1794
Your young Friend my Son John Quincy Adams, accompanied by his youngest Brother Thomas Boylston Adams, will deliver you this Letter.1 They are to reside at the Hague and I hope will behave to your Satisfaction.
What shall I say of the affairs of the World? Silence I believe is Wisdom. For Heaven’s Sake let Us Americans be neutral. We can do nothing but mischief by intermeddling with any Side. I am / and shall be till Death your / Sincere Friend
RC (private owner, 1957); internal
address: “Mr Luzac.”
Luzac met JQA and CA in
1781 when they attended Leyden University. JQA and
TBA dined with Luzac on 27 and 28 Nov. 1794, shortly
after landing in the Netherlands (JQA, Diary
,
1:86;
AFC
, 11:91).