Adams Family Correspondence, volume 4
1782-01-04
I hope, Charles is at home by this time or that he will be in a few days. I presume he sailed from Bilbao in the Cicero, with M
I cannot tell you any News—there are great questions upon the Tapis here, but how they will be decided, I know not.—This Rep
There is not so much as a Talk of a general Peace, nor is there any one who believes in a seperate Peace bet
Take Care of the War of Ports which the English talk of. Perhaps Falmouth, perhaps Rhode Island. Look to Privateers and trade.
Let not a Bow be unstrung. There will be, there can be no Peace.
I hope Hayden, who had some things for you, is arrived.
I shall not be able to send any thing more I am afraid untill next summer.
My Blessing to my Daughter and Son, my Duty to Parents and Affection to Brothers and Sisters.
Pray send me, half a dozen, N.E. shillings by different Opportunities, if you can find them.1
See above, JA to AA, 21 Oct. 1781 and note 2 there.