Adams Papers Digital Edition

Adams Family Correspondence, volume 4

Hugh Hughes to Abigail Adams

Benjamin Waterhouse to John Adams
James Lovell to Abigail Adams, 21 May 1781 Lovell, James AA

1781-05-21

 James Lovell to Abigail Adams, 21 May 1781 Lovell, James Adams, Abigail
James Lovell to Abigail Adams
May 21. 1781

I hope you are not still without later Dates from Mr. A's Hand than what we have—Oct. 24.1 I conclude he was well about the last of Febry., because Mr. Carmichael under Date of March 11th sends us Mr. A's Plan of a Loan to be opened at the House of Nieufville & Son March 1st.2 We have no Vessels from Holland. Accept of my Conjecture as a Proof of my uniform Wish to contribute to your Ease of Mind and general Happiness.

I have sent an open 3plicate to Mr. A. for Mr. Moylan respecting your Invoice.3

Free from Pain, I shall however limp for many a day.

RC (Adams Papers); addressed: “Mrs. A. Adams Braintree near Boston”; franked: “Philada. Jas. Lovell.” Lower portion of MS torn off, destroying part of address on cover.

1.

JA to Pres. Huntington, 24 Oct. 1780, is in PCC, No. 84, II (printed in Wharton, Dipl. Corr. Amer. Rev. , 4: 103–104); LbC is in Adams Papers (printed in JA, Corr. in the Boston Patriot , p. 259–260).

 2.

Carmichael's letter of 11 March was addressed to the Committee of Foreign Affairs and is printed in Wharton, Dipl. Corr. Amer. Rev. , 4:279–280. The plan of a loan through the house of Neufville was premature and came to nothing; see JA, Corr. in the Boston Patriot , p. 377–378, 398–400.

 3.

No such communication has been found. Concerning Moylan and his invoice, see above, Lovell to AA, 27 Feb., and note 1 there.