Adams Papers Digital Edition

Papers of John Adams
Volume 16, February 1784 – March 1785

Front Matter

Copyright

Sponsorship

Committees

Descriptive List of Illustrations

Introduction

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Documents

1 February 1784Gentlemen I have just received your Favour of Yesterday and thank you for the Promptitude with which you answered mine of the 29. Ult. I have been in...

2 February 1784Sir Mr C. W. Schubert, de Rawitz, in Poland, proposes to embark in march for New York, and there to establish himself, in Trade, chiefly in German Li...

3 February 1784Sir. The Packet accompanying this, was put into my hands by Mr. Reid formerly President of Pennsylvania, with a request that it might be forwarded by...

4 February 1784Sir We have received your Excellency’s esteemed favour of 1 febr, by whch. we See you are pleased to consent of an extraordinary Sacrifice, whch. we ...

4 February 1784Sir The Houses send to your Excellency the Sheme of the projected Loan, but in order to Leave you to Judge of it, that it agrees with one at 6 Per C:...

5 February 1784Gentlemen I have received your Favour of the Fourth, and considered its Contents. I am very Sorry to find there is no Hope of obtaining the Money upo...

5 February 1784Dear Sir— While your great application to Public business increases the number of your friends (Especially in this Commonwealth) it cannot fail to mu...

5 February 1784Sir, I received the Letter you did me the Honour of writing to me the 24th past. You have had a terrible Passage indeed, taking it all together from ...

6 February 1784Sir I have now the Honor to forward you a letter from my friend Mr: Edward Browne of Ostend, which respects the business we had the Honor to converse...

6 February 1784Dear Sir Dr. Franklin informs me, that in your Passage from England to Holland, you experienced many more difficulties than are common even at this r...

8 February 1784Monsieur Je N’ai pas l’honneur d’etre Connuë de Vous Mais la Cruelle inquiettude ou je Me trouve au Sujet de Mon fils M’enhardit a M’adresser a Vous ...

10 February 1784Sir Since my Arrival at this Place and indeed Since I left London I have heard no News of Mr Jay. will you be so good as to inform me, where he is an...

10 February 1784Sir I had Scarcely finished my Dispatches, to go by Mr Thaxter with the definitive Treaty, when I was taken down with a Fever at Paris, and reduced s...

10 February 1784Dear Sir Two Days to Harwich, 2 or 3 days there, 3 or 4 at Sea, and 5 or 6. more walking, riding in Boors Waggons and pulling and Hawling in Iceboats...

10 February 1784Dear Sir I am honored with yours of the 25th: Ulto. You will perhaps have heard by other hands the heavey loss I have met with— Mrs. Ridley died the ...

11 February 1784Sir Last night I received your obliging Favour of the fifth of this Month. Your Excellencys Sentiment, “that the Foundation of Credit abroad must be ...

11 February 1784Sir Last night I received yours of the third of this Month, accompanied with the Packet, put into your Hands by Mr Reed, I have also received, as I ...

11 February 1784Dr Sir Your kind Favour of the 30 Ult. was deliverd to me last night, together with the Packet, which our Friend Mr Gerry committed to your Care. You...

11 February 1784 As there is so little temptation, at present, to an englishman, to pay any attention to the wretched political informations of his country, you will...

11 February 1784Sir We postponed to answer the honour of your Excellency’s favour of 5 febr, in hope to be able to mention Something definitif to you, but it would b...

13 February 1784Dear Sir I have recd a Letter from Mr Gerry, at Phila. 23 Nov. Thaxter arrived there the night before. I presume he has written by Mr Reed, and that ...

14 February 1784Dear Sir Last Evening, after mine to you of Yesterdays date, was gone to the Post office, yours of the Sixth, was sent me from thence. If I were to p...

14 February 1784Sir We have had the honour to receive your most esteem’d Favour of the day before yesterday, and observe with pleasure that your Excellency agrees to...

14 February 1784Gentlemen I have just received your Letter of Yesterday, as I Suppose, tho without a Date and have maturely considered its Contents. I have weighed y...

16 February 1784Sir We have received your most honour’d Favour in answer to our Letter of Saturday, and observe with pleasure, that after having weighed our Reasons,...

16 February 1784Sir We received with pleasure your Excelly’s favour this morning and hope you are satisfyed with our endeavours to safe the honour of Congress drafts...

19 February 1784Sir, I received your Favor of the 10th Inst Mr Jay has recovered his Health in a great Measure by his Excursion to Bath, & has returned to Paris— I h...

20 February 1784Gentlemen The Day before Yesterday the Baron de Thuilemeyer the Envoy to their High Mightinesses, from the King of Prussia, did me the Honour of a Vi...

21 February 1784Sir I have recd the Letter you did me the Honour to write me Yesterday Although I am a Friend to all usefull Discoveries in Science and all ingenious...

21 February 1784Monsieur J’espere que dans peu vous aurez la satisfaction de voir paraître l’ouvrage de Mr de Mably, ouvrage qui honore également l’Ecrivain & le hér...

21 February 1784Dear Sir I was duly honoured with your Favour of the 11th. Instt. which I communicated to Dr. Witherspoon who joins me in reciprocating every Mark of...

22 February 1784Sir I thank you for your Favour, of the 21st: and for the Communication of the Letter from my Friend the Abby de Mably. I am very Sensible of his Par...

22 February 1784Dear Sir. I am ashamed to have, let your Letter remain so long unanswered— I did not know untill I rec’d it that you had paid for me the Rent or sent...

23 February 1784Gentlemen I receiv’d with Pleasure, your Favour of the 16th. which informs me of the Engagement of the Undertakers for a Million. I have receiv’d Let...

23 February 1784Monsieur Le politique Hollandais est mort, et le Mercure Hollandais vient reprendre sa place. J’ai l’honneur d’envoyer à Votre Excellence le premier ...

24 February 1784Sir I have the Honour of receiving your Excellencys Letter of the 10th Instant I had heard before of the disagreableness of your Journey to the Hague...

25 February 1784Sir We have received the honour of your Excellcy’s estemed favour of 23 febr, containing an observation abt. the plan, we agree that the Same has som...

26 February 1784My Dear Sir Since my last which went by Mr Temple, I have had the pleasure of receiving yours of the 10th. Sepr by Mr. Thaxter. The Approbation of y...

27 February 1784 Tho’ I have not the honour of being personally acquainted with you, I flatter myself this will not be deemed an Intrusion, as it is a measure which n...

28 February 1784Sir We had the honor of receiving your Favour of the 20th: Inst, and are persuaded that the Communication of the Friendly Disposition of his Prussian...

28 February 1784Sir! I have the Honour to Reply on your Ecellence much esteemed favor of the 30 Past, which I duely received, and am infinetly much Obliged to your E...

28 February 1784Sir May it please Your Excellence to give a kind reception to the historical Almanack for the Year 1784. which I, this Year for the first time publis...

3 March 1784Sir. I have receiv’d the Letter you did me the Honour to write me, under the Cover of my Friend Mr: Johnson, and however dangerous it maybe for an Am...

3 March 1784Monsieur Vous apprendrez de Mr Rosart imprimeur des Remarques de Mr de Mably à quel point cet ouvrage est avancé. Il desirerait ardemment de faire en...

4 March 1784Sir We take the Liberty of sending herewith the General Bond of the new Loan with the Dutch Translation of it, and beg you’ll be so kind as to pass t...

8 March 1784My dear Sir Before I Had a Pointed Reason to write, My friendship for You, and our Common zeal for the Public Had dictated it— But I must Begin with ...

9 March 1784Sir On the Eighteenth of February the Baron de Thulemeyer, Envoy Extraordinary to their High Mightinesses from the King of Prussia, did me the Honour...

9 March 1784Sir Agreable to your esteemed favour we have the honour to inclose your acct Amounting to ƒ1528:17:8 and charge Said Sum to the United States, having...

9 March 1784 On the ninth day of March in the Year of our Lord One Thousand seven hundred and eighty four, appeared before me Lambert Sythoff Notary Public, duly ...

12 March 1784Sir I take the Liberty of enclosing an American. newspaper & an Extract out of an English one. The House of Commons sat until 12 O Clock last night; ...

13 March 1784Sr: The ship Dutche’s of Kingston in which Mr Dana came in is now bound to Lisbon, from whence this will be forwarded, as probably itt may reach you ...

14 March 1784Monsieur, Lê Roi desirant donner au Traité de Commerce a conclure entre S. M. et les Etats Unis de l’Amérique toute la consistance possible, adopte b...

14 March 1784Sir, We have lately received a Letter from the Secretary of Congress, of which I enclose a Copy, accounting for the Delay of the Ratification; & we h...

17 March 1784Dear Sir, I beg leave to trouble you with the inclosed letter to Miss Elizabeth White in London, the only sister of my wife. When her father, captai...

19 March 1784Sir We have the pleasure to advice your Excellency that the Loan is So far advanced, that all the drafts will be payed, and we hope in course of time...

21 March 1784Monsieur! Nous avons l’Honneur de Vous accompagner L’ouvrage de Mr. De Mablÿ, d’après La Promesse que nous fimes à Votre Excellence. Voÿlà la premier...

24 March 1784Sir I have received the Almanack you were pleased to Send me, and I beg of you to accept of my Thanks for it. I beg your Acceptance also of a Couple ...

24 March 1784Gentlemen I have received your favour of the 19: and congratulate you on the Success of the Loan. It gives me great Pleasure to find that American Cr...

24 March 1784Honorable Sir! The occasion of our addressing you the present is to inform you, that we have to our Consignment a Vessel from New York, named the New...

25 March 1784Monsieur, Vous avez desiré, Monsieur, d’être instruit des marchandises & productions qui pourroient faire l’objet d’un négoce réciproque entre les Et...

26 March 1784Gentlemen I have receiv’d the Letter you did me, the Honour to write me, on the twenty fourth of this month, and upon looking into the Treaty, I susp...

27 March 1784Sir I have the Honour to inclose Copies of three Notes which I have receiv’d from the Prussian Minister, the Baron de Thulemeier, by which Congress w...

27 March 1784Monsieur le Baron I have received the Letter you did me the Honour to write me, the twenty fifth of this Month, and the Note included in it, both of ...

28 March 1784Sir I did not receive your Letter of the 8th, untill the day before yesterday.— That I have not Seen with Pleasure, Approbation or Indifference, the ...

31 March 1784Sir, I have the honour of acquainting your Excellency, that an Express from Congress is at last arrived, with their Ratification of the Definitive Tr...

31 March 1784Sir We received your Excellency’s most esteemed Letter of the 24th. of this Month. We rejoice with yoúr Excelly. in the Succes which has attended oúr...

2 April 1784Gentlemen I duely received the Letter, you did me the Honour to write me, on the Subject of a Treaty with Prussia and have communicated it to the Bar...

2 April 1784My dear Friend I blush to acknowledge, that I received your favour of the 6. Feb. in its Season and in good Condition, and that I have not answered i...

6 April 1784Dear Sir Your Favour of 14. Jan. was brought me Yesterday. I have been obliged to come here, in order to raise Money, for the Payment of Bills to a l...

6 April 1784Dear Sir By my friend Jona Jackson Esqr. who sailed for Ireland and England in Decer last, I did myself the pleasure of writing you fully, under date...

6 April 1784Sir I have done myself the Honor of Answering your Excellencys Letter of the 10th of Febry by two different Posts, as far as was then in my Power. I ...

8 April 1784Dear Sir I thank You for your obliging Letter of the 2d. Inst—& congratulate you on the Recovery of your Health, as well as on the Success of your me...

Draft Letters to Samuel Osgood

On 9 April 1784 John Adams drafted two letters to Samuel Osgood. They were replies to Osgood’s of 7 December 1783 and 14 January 1784 (vol. 15:398–414...

9 April 1784Dear Sir On the 5th. I recd, your Favour, which came by Coll Herman, and another long Letter with it. You have obliged me very much. in the Six year...

9 April 1784Sir on the 5th, I received your Favour which came by Coll Herman, and another long Letter with it.— You have obliged me very much. in the Six Years t...

9 April 1784Dear Sir A friendly letter I wrote You, and the One I Receive is not so affectionate as usual. The Value I set By Your Esteem, the Consequent fear le...

9 April 1784Monsieur, J’ai l’honneur de Vous envoier ci joint en original le Projet du Traité de Commerce a conclure entre S. M. Prussienne et les Etats-Unis de ...

Proposed Prussian-American Treatyof Amity and Commerce[9 April – post 5 May 1784]I. Draft Prussian-American Treaty of Amity and Commerce, with a Contemporary Translation, [9 April 1784]II. The Baron von Thulemeier’s Memorandum Regarding Changes to the Draft Prussian-American Treaty Suggested by the American Commissioners, with a Contemporary Translation, [post 5 May 1784]

The draft Prussian-American commercial treaty that the Baron von Thulemeier submitted to John Adams with his letter of 9 April was the product of thei...

9 April 1784[9 April 1784][9 April 1784] Traité D’Amitie et de Commerce, conclu entre Sa Majeste le Roi de Prusse et les Etats Unis de L’Amerique Septentrionale.T...

5 May 1784 Observations faites par Monsieur Adams, sur le projet d’un Traité d’Amitié et de Commerce à conclure entre Sa Majesté le Roi de Prusse et les Etats-U...

10 April 1784Sir I have the Honour to inclose to Congress a Copy of a Letter from the Baron De Thulemeier, and a Copy of a Project of a Treaty transmitted to me, ...

10 April 1784Gentlemen Inclosed is Copy of a Letter from the Baron de Thulemeier and Copy of a Project of a Treaty transmitted to me by order of the King of Pruss...

16 April 1784My dear Sir I have not receivd a Letter from you of a later Date than the 10th of Septr. last. Extracts of yours to D G of the same Date have been ha...

16 April 1784Sir, We duly receiv’d (Mr Jay & me) the Letters you did us the honour of writing to us the 27th of March & the 2d Instant. We shall transmit, as you ...

16 April 1784Honor’d Sir on the 26 last, I have sent your Excell̃: pr the Marketboat, the Two Medals you desired, according to a letter rec̃: from the Gentleman y...

18 April 1784Dear Sir As we hear that you are soon Expected at Paris, I Beg leave to mention to you that the Bills which were paid by your orders in Holland are A...

20 April 1784Gentlemen I have just now received the Letter which Dr Franklin did me the Honour to write me on the 16th. with the Copy of the Treaty with Sweeden. ...

20 April 1784Sir I have received the Letter you did me, the Honour to write me, the 20. Nov. last, and immediately wrote to my Colleagues upon the Subject and inc...

20 April 1784Dear Sir I am extreamly Sorry, to read in your Letter of the 8th. that you think of embarking for America. Let me beg of you to reconsider that Proje...

20 April 1784Sir I am very much obliged by your Favour of the 21. of December. it is a great Pleasure to learn that the Treaty of Peace gives Satisfaction. The Pr...

22 April 1784Sir I have received the Letters you did me the Honour to write me from Madrid the 15. Jan. and the Feb.— I am very glad that Mr Barry and Mr Fitch a...

22 April 1784Sir I received Sometime Since a Letter from an American Gentleman now in London, a Candidate for Orders, desiring to know, if American Candidates mig...

23 April 1784Dear Sir I have this Moment the Pleasure of your Letter of the 18. The Bills you mention, which were only accepted by me, and were paid by Fizeau & ...

26 April 1784Gentlemen. I have two favours to ask of you. 1. That you would give orders to Mr: Puller, in Broad street Buildings London to Supply a certain Lady w...

26 April 1784Dear Sir Inclosed is a letter which I received by the last packet from New york, and which I sincerely hope will bring you agreeable Intelligence fro...

27 April 1784Sir To the care of Doctr Parker who I am told will be a safe conveyance, & who has promised to deliver ’em himself, I inclose you two Letters from Am...

27 April 1784Dear Sir Your Favr. of the 20th. Inst. arrived last Evening— It is not in pursuance of a recent or hasty Resolution, that I am preparing to return: I...

29 April 1784Sir, We received the Letter you did us the honour of writing to us the 10th. Inst, with the project of a Treaty that had been transmitted to you by t...

1 May 1784My dear Sir I received this morning your Letter of November 4 & Decr 4, with great Pleasure. I had heard of your Illness and was anxious to hear of y...

1 May 1784Sir. This day I receiv’d, your kind Letter of the 27 of April, with the two Letters. I left England in January, to get some money in Holland to disch...

2 May 1784My worthy Friend I have recd, Yesterday, your obliging Letter of the fifth of December, having before received and answered as I Suppose, my Letter ...

4 May 1784Dear Sir Your advice “to reconcile myself to the Thought that Justice may not be done me, till I am dead” is friendly. I am not however apprehensive ...

4 May 1784Dear Sir I wrote you the 23 Ult. and expect your Answer by the next Post. To Day I have yours of 26 Ult and have executed your orders, by writing to ...

4 May 1784Gentlemen I have received repeated Letters from Mr. Barclay, who is settling American Accounts, requiring me to produce the Bills of Exchange which w...

4 May 1784 Mr Adams presents his Compliments to the Baron De Thulemeier: He has received from Paris, the Project of a Treaty, returned with the Remarks of his C...

6 May 1784Dear Sir I had the pleasure of receiving your letter relative to the House at Auteuil, since which several Messages pass’d between the Count de Rouau...

7 May 1784Sir I have the Honour of having received your Excellencys Letter, wherein I find a most Obliging Introduction to Mrs Adams, which I shall certainly m...

7 May 1784Dear Sir I should not have put you to the Expence of a Letter by the Post. But Mr. Vanbibber a Gentleman of respectable Family & Fortune going over ...

7 May 17843 June 1784 Whereas Instructions bearing date the 29th. day of October 1783 were sent to the Ministers Plenipotentiary of the United States of America at the Cou...

8 May 1784Gentlemen. I am to take with me to Paris, a Quantity of Bills of Exchange, formerly accepted by me, in behalf of the United States and paid by Messrs...

9 May 1784Gentlemen I have rec’d the Letter you did me the Honour to write me yesterday. I am surprised that Mr: Barclay, should desire you to transmit to me, ...

11 May 1784Dear Sir. 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 w...

11 May 1784Dear Sir Your favour of the 27. April is, before me.— I wish very Sincerely that my family had made a Visit to me, or I to them on the Conclusion of ...

11 May 1784Sir I did myself the Honour of writing to your Excellency by the last Post, & inclosing a Letter, which might have been productive by this Time of an...

11 May 1784Dear Sir, I cannot let this opportunity, thõ, from Mr. Jefferson’s hurry, a transitory one, pass; without writing you a line. The arrangement of our...

12 May 1784My dear Sir I am Sorry to have given you, So much Trouble about the House, to no purpose: But I am weary of these perpetual Incertitudes in which We...

12 May 1784 To all to whom these presents shall come or be made known—Send Greeting— Whereas an intercourse between the Subjects of His Britannic Majesty and the...

13 May 1784Dear Sir I have received your Letters by Mr Jackson and Mr Appleton. The former I answered Some days ago.— My Son who is going to London in hopes of ...

13 May 1784Sir Since my last Arrival in Holland, I have not transmitted to Congress, the Details of the Politicks of this Court and Nation, nor of those neighbo...

13 May 1784Sir The Measures taken by the Neighbouring Powers are likely to produce an intimate Friendship and Connection between this Republick and France. Engl...

13 May 1784Dear Sir I have received your Letter with the Copy inclosed, which has affected me too tenderly, to write any other Answer at present than this, that...

13 May 1784Dear Sir I am favor’d, with your letter of the 4th. and thank you for the Trouble you took with the letters for Amsterdam— I am about half Converted ...

14 May 1784Sir As I had the Honour to observe in a former Letter there is a Fermentation in the Courts of the two Empires and those of Bourbon, which appears in...

14 May 1784dear Brother I am here in anxious Expectation of the Arrival of my Family, which I hope are coming in Calahan. When I Shall have the Happiness to see...

14 May 1784 Your Excellency’s very Friendly Letter of the 22 April is safely come to hand, for which be pleased to accept my warmest thanks. a poor Acknowledgeme...

16 May 1784Dear Sir Last Night I received your letters of the 10th. and 11th. Inst: and am sorry you had the Trouble of writing to me about the Bills, which was...

20 May 1784Dear Sir I Shall go to Amsterdam next Week, receive all the Bills of Messrs Fizeaux & Co and Send them to you by Express, by whom I pray you to send...

20 May 1784Gentlemen, I have the Honor to transmit to you the following Acts of Congress relating to the formation of commercial Treaties &c viz— N1. Letter to ...

22 May 1784Dear Sir I am favor’d with your letter Covering one from Mess: Hope & Co. relative to the Draughts on Mr. Jay which were twice paid. and I am much ob...

24 May 1784Dear Sir I am here to collect together the Bills and Send them to you by Express. When this Express returns, I pray you to Send by him, my Trunk and ...

25 May 1784Sir You will have receiv’d advice before this of the departure of Mr Jay for London. I was at Passi on friday the Docter askd me if I had seen you an...

25 May 1784Monsieur En vous acheminant les Lettres, &c. ci-jointes, j’ai le plaisir de pouvoir vous dire, qu’il s’agit en ce moment très-sérieusement à l’Assemb...

28 May 1784Dear Sir I have this moment your Favour of 22. last night I returned from Amsterdam, where I have collected the Bills and left them with Mr Willink t...

1 June 1784Sir, The time of Mrs— As. departure draws so near, & the Conveyance is so unexceptionable, that I can hardly be excused from forwarding a few Lines.—...

1 June 1784Sir This will be handed you by a person who will insure the welcome did it come from one who has much less Claim to your Friendship than the writer. ...

2 June 1784Dear Sir Altho’ I Have not Been Honoured with an Answer to My last letter, I will not lose time in Acquainting You that My departure from l’orient is...

7 June 1784Sir Some Weeks ago the Baron de Thulemeier called upon me and delivered me the Paper, copy of which is inclosed marked 1. It is a Letter written by t...

7 June 1784Dear Sir I have to acknowledge the receipt of three Letters from you & to ask pardon for the appearance of Neglect in not doing it before—the several...

10 June 1784Dear Sir The express set of thursday morning the 3d of June, with the bills of exchange, your letter to Mr. J: Barclay Esqr. & a letter from us to Me...

11 June 1784Dear Sir My Express who sett off, on the third from Amsterdam is with you before now, and I hope you have found the Bills of Exchange to your Satisfa...

11 June 1784 My dear Marquis I received in Season, the Letter mentioned in yours of the Second of this Month, but as there was nothing in it which required an im...

15 June 1784Dear Sir The Day before Yesterday, Mr Bingham arrived and delivered me the Extracts, for which I am obliged to you, they coincide with many other Le...

16 June 1784Dear Sir I cannot omit paying my most sincere Respects by your good Mrs Adams—on whom and your amiable Daughter attend my best prayers— it would have...

16 June 1784my dear Mr Adams Here I am after a six Months Session at Annapolis, on my Way to Massachusetts, & altho my Opposition to the same System in America, ...

16 June 1784Dr Sir, I have not any Letters from your Excellency which are unanswered except those of the twenty first of May and fourteenth of September in the l...

16 June 1784Dear Sir I heartily give you joy of your meeting your Mrs Adams & her amiable Daughter, as you will receive them before you See this— They are to Sai...

18 June 1784Gentlemen I have the honor of forwarding three comm[issions] which were not prepared in time to go by Mr Jefferson, [and] a duplicate of the instruct...

19 June 1784Dear Sir Supposing that you would receive from Congress a direct communication of the powers given to yourself, Doctr. Franklin & myself, I have defe...

22 June 1784Sir If my Memory does not deceive me, I have heretofore transmitted to Congress, the Advice of some of the foreign Ministers here, that the United S...

22 June 1784 Account of Bills of Exchange drawn by the Commrs. of Loans in America on Henry Laurence & John Adams Esqrs. at Amsterdam.— 1780Feby. 25In whose favor...

23 June 1784Sir There are several Arrivals from America one of which has, I am told, brought a Packet addressed to your Excellency & to Dr Franklin. I have recei...

25 June 1784Dear Sir I have this morning received your Favours of the 16 & 17 of April, and am fully with you in Sentiment, that “the Sooner a commercial Treaty ...

25 June 1784Dear Sir I received your letter by the Post and Express almost at the same time. Your things went away last Night at Eleven o’Clock, and Inclosed I s...

25 June 1784My dear Sir At the Very instant of Sailing for America, I stop to Send You the New Modelled Regulations of the Cincinnati— My principles Ever Have Be...

26 June 178427 June 1784Dr sir— When I had last the pleasure of Seeing you, I was not altogether determined what Route I Should take— I rather inclined to the Idea of return...

27 June 1784Dear Sir I received your Favours by Mr Reed and by Coll Herman, and am much obliged to you for your friendly Sentiments and instructive Communication...

27 June 1784Sir, Inclosed I have the Honour of sending to your Excellency Copies of Papers contain’d in a Dispatch just receiv’d from Congress. The Affair of the...

29 June 1784Sir The Baron de Reishack, has several times said to me that his Court expected that Congress would announce formally their Independence, and asked m...

29 June 1784My dear Sir. Mrs. Adams. & Miss Nabby left us last Sunday was a week ago. with a very fine Wind. which has Continued here ever since & promises her a...

29 June 1784Sir We receive this night a letter of the Express with advice of his arrival with 3 truncks in brussel, but to his great Surprise as well as ours the...

30 June 1784Dear Sir I received your Letters with great Pleasure. They let me into many Misteries before impenetrable. The Journal which caused Such Wonder, was ...

30 June 1784The Baron de Reishach I have the Honour to inclose in Confidence Copy of the Resolution of Congress of the 29 Day of October last, which I take it fo...

30 June 1784Monsieur. Cest bien malgré moi, que je n’ay pu repondre tout de Suitte à Votre lettre de ce matin, mais mon peu de Coñoissance de la langue Angloise ...

30 June 1784Monsieur Le Baron I have this Moment the Honour of your obliging Favour of this Days Date, and I beg of you to accept of my Thanks for your prompt an...

30 June 1784Dear Sir Your amiable Son, has done me the favour of his Company, here, for a Day or two, and this Morning goes to Amsterdam, intending to return to ...

30 June 1784Gentlemen I have just now received your Favour of Yesterday and am very Sorry to find by it that my Express is arrested at Brussells. This Express wa...

1 July 1784Sir When I was in London last November & December I amused myself often, by running into Booksellers Shops, and purchasing now and then a Book, which...

1 July 1784Monsieur. Je crois, qu’il ÿ a ún droit, qu’on paÿe a l’entree des livres, qúi viennent des païs etrangers, mais les Ministres públics en Sont exempts...

1 July 1784Sir We are favoured with your esteemed letter of 30th: June, we had wrote upon the same Subject to our Mr. Van Berckel, and he has been so obliging a...

2 July 1784Hauts et Puissants Seigneurs Le Sousigné Ministre Plenipotentiaire des Etats Unis de L’Amerique, a l’honneur de prier Vos Hauts Puissances, de vouloi...

2 July 1784Hauts et Puissants Seigneurs Le Sousigne Ministre Plenipotentiaire des Etats Unis de L’Amerique, a l’honneur de proposer, qu’il laissa l’année passée...

2 July 1784Sir We receive Notice of th’ Express, that a friend of his in Brussel, known by the Gouvernor remained Caution for him, that the trunks and Goods bel...

3 July 1784Sir Soon after the Signature of the Preliminary Articles of Peace, I requested, of Congress, their Permission to return to America. This Request they...

4 July 1784Sir, I have received the Letter your Excelly. did me the Honour of writing to me the 29th past. The Annunciation directed by the Instruction you ment...

5 July 1784Sir Having been obliged to come to Holland, the Beginning of this Year to obtain Money, to prevent Mr Morriss Bills from being protested, I have rema...

5 July 1784Dear Sir, I intended to have written to you some posts ago, But I found that a few of your things had been lock’d up in a Chamber at Auteuil, and lef...

5 July 1784My dear Sir I did not omit to write by the Conveyance of one of the most amiable Women I ever knew. I only omitted to send my written Congratulations...

5 July 1784Hon’d Sir In leaving the Hague, I fully intended returning the same way and acknowledging personally my gratitude for the polite reception I mett at ...

6 July 1784Monsieur! Empressé à vous faire plaisir en toutes occasions, je n’ai point tardé a faire envers le Gouvernement General des Pais Bas de la domination...

9 July 1784Dear Sir I wrote you last post since which I was Informed your things were stop’d at Brussells, This must have been Intirely through the Ignorence of...

9 July 1784Sir Your Letters of 27th. of last March, & the 10th of April together with a Copy of the plan of a Treaty proposed by his Prussian Majesty, and Copie...

11 July 1784Gentlemen Is there no News from Egberts our Express? What can have happened to him? or become of him? Is he dead, or Sick? I Sent you a Passport for ...

18 July 1784Sir. I have just received your Letter of Yesterday with seven Copies of the English Translation of the Abby de Mably’s Letters. I have read part of t...

19 July 1784Dear Sir I have rec’d your Letters of the fifth and ninth, and at last my Trunks are arrived, so that I am now collected into one Spot. I shall. be m...

19 July 1784Sir I have the Honour of your Letters of the 27 of June and 4. July, and Should advise your Excellency to present the C. de Mercy, a Copy of the Inst...

19 July 1784Dear Sir I have rec’d your’s of the 13th and 16th: the last contains the most agreeable News I have heard a long time.— If Mrs: Adams should arrive, ...

20 July 1784Gentlemen In Answer to your Favour of Yesterday, I have to inform you, that I have received my Trunks, brought by the Express, and approve of your pa...

24 July 1784Dr: Sir When I did myself the honor of writing you on the 19th. Ult. it was my expectation that I should take my passage in the French packet which ...

27 July 1784Sir I have a Letter from Mr: Jefferson of 19. June by which it appears, that he will be at Paris by the Latter end of August, where I am to join him ...

27 July 1784Sir I embrace the opportunity, by Mr: Bingham, to enclose to your Excellency, Copy of a Letter from Mr: Jefferson, by which it appears that we are jo...

1 August 1784Dear Sir, I am favd. with your letter of the 19th. of last Month, and am Extremely glad to find your things have at length reach’d you— The few Artic...

1 August 1784Dear Sir, I have the honor to transmit to your Excellency a Copy of the Communication made by my Grandfather to the Count de Mercy of that Part of th...

3 August 1784Gentlemen I have accepted two Bills drawn by my Wife to be paid at the House of Messrs Willinks and Shall accept two more to be paid by Messrs Fuller...

3 August 1784 A List of Silver belonging to His Excelce:. Mr: Adams and Send to Mr: Willink at Amsterdam the 3d:. of August 1784. 5 large Silver Soop Spoons. 2 Sil...

6 August 1784Sir, Mr Bingham sent me last Night from Paris, your Excellency’s Letter of the 27th past, inclosing a Copy of one from Mr Jefferson. I had before sen...

9 August 1784Dear Sir, I received your letter by Mr. Bingham and heartily Congratulate you on the happy arrival in England. Mr. Jefferson is here, but I have Not ...

10 August 1784Sir We receive this morning of Mr. Lotter the honour of your esteemed favour of 3d. aug. with the key of the Small trunck, this Small trunk with a la...

12 August 1784My dear Sir, Your favor of the 6th of April found me here two days ago, waiting for the necessary preparatives to a definitive treaty of peace & boun...

13 August 1784Gentlemen, In pursuance of the orders of the Comee of the States I have the honor to transmit to you the Copy of a letter signed T. Gilfillan dated L...

16 August 1784Dear Sir. I have just received your Favor of the 7th of May last; am oblidged to you for the Intelligence it contained— I Perceive you are somewhat u...

18 August 1784Sir I wish well enough to the University of New York, to give you every Letter of Recommendation to Gentlemen in Holland which I can give with Decenc...

25 August 1784Dear Sir. I had a tedious Passage of two Days from Helvoet and was at last obliged to Land at Leostoff a dozen Leagues from Harwich, and ride from th...

25 August 1784Gentlemen I am at length, Sit down once more to Business, at Auteuil, a Village near Paris, where I have taken a convenient House, with a pleasant Ga...

26 August 1784Dear Sir. I received with great Pleasure your friendly Letter of the 16. of June by my dear Mrs: Adams, who with our daughter and eldest Son, are hap...

27 August 1784Dear Sir I have recd your Favour of the Second of June by Mr Tracy. as I Stopped in London only a few Hours, I had not an Oppertunity to see him: but...

27 August 1784Dear Sir I received yours of the 29 of June, by Mr Jefferson, whose appointment gives me great Pleasure. He is an old Friend with whom I have often h...

2 September 1784Sir By the honour of your Excellencies favour we observe, that our letter, of whch. we annex the Copy must not have reached you, whch. acknowledged t...

3 September 1784Monsieur, La besogne que vous trouverez, ci-joint, c’est à dire la copie & traduction d’une Résolution aussi importante, m’empeche encore de répondre...

8 September 1784Dear Sir I received your friendly Letter of the 19. June, by my dear Mrs Adams, with great Pleasure and Shall ever be obliged to you for a Line when ...

8 September 1784Sir I have received, by Mrs Adams, the Letter you did me, the Honour to write me on the eighth of June last, together with a Vote of the President an...

9 September 1784My dear Friend I have received your Letter of the 15 of June and am happy to inform you, that Mr Jefferson and Mr Humphrey are Arrived, as well as my...

9 September 1784Sir The United States of America in Congress Assembled judging that an intercourse between the Subjects of His Prussian Majesty and the Citizens of t...

10 September 1784Monsieur, Quoique malade depuis 8 jours, je fais cependant des efforts, non seulement pour vous acheminer l’incluse pour le Congrès dont le contenu V...

10 September 1784May it please Your Excellence! Your Excellence’s of the 25th: of last Month, wherewith I have been favoured, did give me very great Satisfaction and ...

15 September 1784 The American Ministers plenipotentiary exhibited officially to the Count de Vergennes Minister and Secretary of State having the Department of foreig...

16 September 1784Gentlemen I have received your obliging Letter of the 2d of this Month, with the Papers enclosed I have heard nothing from Congress nor from Mr Morri...

16 September 1784Monsieur, Rien de nouveau ici depuis ma derniere. On attend la réponse de Vienne à celle de L. H. P. En attendant les antirépublicains ici, & les pus...

16 September 1784 You may with great Truth assure the American Ministers of our ready and friendly disposition to receive any proposals from the United States for the ...

18 September 1784Sir I have received your Favour of the 10th. as well as the two former, with their Inclosures. The first I Sent by Mr Tracy a Sure hand, by the Way o...

24 September 1784Monsieur, Com̃e le contenu de l’incluse ne m’a été confié que sous le Sceau du secret, vous voudrez bien, ainsi que Mess. vos Collegues, ne témoigner...

27 September 1784Sir We are favoured with your Excellency’s esteemed favour of the 16th. Instant, Nothwithstanding four Vessells arrived from America last week, we re...

27 September 1784Muy Sres. mios: Antes de ayer recibi la carta de V. Sas. del 22 por mano del Sr. Humphreys Secretarío de la comission, en la qual me comunican la ínt...

28 September 1784Monsieur! Si je n’ai point pris jusqu’ici la liberté de remercier votre Excellence de la grace qu’elle me fit l’année passée de me donner des lettres...

1 October 1784Monsieur, J’ai recû par la dernière poste la lettre dont Vous m’avés honoré, Monsieur, en date du 18. de Septembre. Celle que Vous m’avés adressée c...

8 October 1784Messieurs, Je n’ai point différé de porter à la connoissance du Roi mon Maître les dispositions des Etats-Unis de l’Amérique pour la conclusion d’un ...

8 October 1784 The objects of the supplementary Treaty proposed on the part of the United States with His Sweedish Majesty are in substance these: ...

10 October 1784Gentlemen My Colleague Mr Jefferson, has orders from Congress to receive a sum of Money in Europe for his necessary accommodation, and not readily fi...

12 October 1784Monsieur En adressant la présente à Votre Excellence, je dois vous prévenir, qu’il ne me sera ni permis, ni par conséquent possible de vous faire par...

17 October 1784 Mr̃ Jefferson’s compliments to Mr. Adams & Dr. Franklin, and incloses to them the letter to the D. of Dorset on the separate articles. he also sends ...

18 October 1784Dear Sir Inclosed is a letter which I received Yesterday under Cover from Mr. Dumas, I suppose the old Gentleman sent it to Me, as you are wholly Unk...

20 October 1784Sir The inclosed Letters from Mr Dumas will communicate to Congress, the present State of affairs, between their High Mightinesses and the Government...

21 October 1784Monsieur Mardi 19 au soir Leurs H. P. dépecherent un Exprès à Paris, avec l’acceptation unanime de la part des 7 provinces des points réservés en bla...

25 October 1784Dear Sir Within a few days I have recd your Favour of the 16 of August, with the Resolve of the General Court of the 6 and 7 of July. The Line betwee...

26 October 1784Monsieur, Depuis quelque temps, & plus les apparences de guerre se fortifient, plus je me trouve obséde, tant par des Americains que par des Holland...

27 October 1784Honourable Sir. We take the liberty to inclose a letter for Mr. Cranch: Which we beg Your Excellencÿ maÿ read and then forward to him the Sooner the ...

28 October 1784Sir We have received the Letter you did us the honour to write us on the 27th day of Septr last, and we thank you for your care in transmitting to y...

28 October 1784My Lord Duke. The United States of america in Congress assembled judging that an intercourse between the Subjects of his Britannic Majesty & the Citi...

28 October 1784Mylord Duke While M. hartley was here as Minister from the Court of Great Britain, we had the honour of mentioning to him that we were instructed by...

28 October 1784Sir, We received your Excellency’s most Esteemed Favoúr of the 10th. Instt. which advice ús that Mr. Jefferson having Orders from Congress to receive...

30 October 1784 The Secretary of the Commission by appointment waited on the Duke of Dorset & delivered to him two Letters from the American Ministers dated the 28th...

3 November 1784Sir Dr Franklin has lately communicated to Mr Jefferson and me a Letter he has received from the Comte de Vergennes and another from Mr Grand. The fi...

3 November 1784Sir I have received your favour of the 26. Octr: with the seven Questions inclosed. I have answered these Questions to the best of my Judgment, belie...

4 November 1784My dear Friend I presume this will meet you in Congress where No Doubt it is less irksome to Serve than heretofore, but not yet So agreable as it oug...

4 November 1784My dear Friend. We are going on, with as much dispatch as the Nature of our Business will admit of, and We proceed with wonderful Harmony, good Humo...

7 November 1784Monsieur En vain je donne la torture à mon esprit pour me former une idée de celui de l’Empr., & de son caractere. Tout ce que j’en comprends, est qu...

The Negotiation of the10 September 1785 Prussian-AmericanTreaty of Amity and Commerce10 November 1784 – 14 March 1785

The Prussian-American Treaty of Amity and Commerce was concluded on 10 September 1785. But negotiations began on 10 November 1784 when the American co...

10 November 1784Sir We received the Letter your Excellency did us the honour of writing to us the 8th Ulto. together with the copy of your full powers to treat with ...

10 November 1784[10 November 1784][24 January 1785] Draught of a Treaty of Amity and Commerce between His Majesty the King of Prussia and the United States of America...

10 November 1784 By the original Law of Nations war and extirpation was the punishment of injury—humanizing by degrees, it admitted slavery instead of death. A farthe...

10 December 1784Messieurs, La lettre dont Vous m’avez honoré, Messieurs, en date du 10 de Novembre ne m’est parvenue que le 26 du même mois, par la voye d’un courier...

24 January 1785Monsieur Vous recevrés, Monsieur, par un Courier Hollandois adressé a Messieurs de Berckenrode, et Brantzen un paquet sous Votre enveloppe et celle d...

24 January 1785Messieurs, Le Roi mon Maître ayant trouvé bon de m’autoriser à faire passer en Vos mains, Messieurs, quelques Observations sur le Contre-Projet du Tr...

13 February 1785Sir Your Favour of the 24th: of Jany. did not reach me, untill two Days ago. I communicated the Observations, inclosed in it, immediately to my Colle...

14 March 1785Sir We had the honour of receiving your Letter of Janry: 24. covering a translation into French of the Draught of a treaty proposed between His Majes...

11 November 1784Sir Having assembled together at this place about the latter end of August we proceeded in obedience to the commands of Congress to notify our appoin...

12 November 1784Monsieur, J’ai reçu avec grand plaisir l’honorée vôtre du 3 Nov. & j’ai fait déjà usage de son contenu & dans une Lettre au Congrès, & auprès de ces ...

12 November 1784Monsieur, J’ai eû l’honneur, Monsieur, de Vous adresser dès le 8. d’Octobre de l’année courante, conjointement avec Messieurs Francklin et Jefferson ...

15 November 1784 Mr Franklin presents his respectful Compliments to Mr Adams, and enclosos a Paper left with him by the Secretary of the Portuguese Ambassador last Ni...

16 November 1784Messieurs Je n’ai pas manqué de faire passer à ma Cour La Lettre, dont vous m’avés honoré Le 30. 7be dernier relative à un Traité d’amitié, et de Com...

19 November 1784Sir. I have received your Letter which you, did me the Honour to write me the twelfth of this Month: We also received the Honour of your Letter to Mr...

20 November 1784Sir By the papers which I have the honor to enclose to your Excellency herewith you will be informed that I have received official Instructions to pr...

22 November 1784Sir, I had the honor of forwarding your Excellency a letter, received from Mr: Dumas, by the Post before last.— It came to hand a day or two before; ...

22 November 1784Dear Sir Your favour of the 7th Sepr. I had a few days ago, shall Set off for Trenton within three days, and shall not fail to communicate One Paragr...

24 November 1784Gentlemen I transmitted without loss of time to the Marquis of Carmarthen, His Majesty’s Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Copies of the two Le...

25 November 1784Sir. We apply to your Excellencÿ in behalf of an unfortunate young man, being a Citizen of Massechusetts New England called Sir Jonas Hartwell, who w...

30 November 1784Sir We have received the Extract of the letter from Monsieur de Sa of the 24th Octr 1784 which your Excellency was pleased to send us by the hand of ...

1 December 1784Monsieur, Je continue de rendre compte à V. E., ainsi qu’au Congrès, que j’ai donné une seconde Déclaration pour servir de Lettre de mer portant,—“th...

2 December 1784My dear Sir I received several of your Letters with Pleasure, particularly that of May, which I will answer at a Time of more Leisure— Captn Dashwood...

7 December 1784Sir Your politeness and Kind attention to me in Europe, together with the unequivocal regard I have for your character, induces me to make you a tend...

9 December 1784Monsieur le Maréchal According to your desire, I have committed to writing the two or three Observations, on the business of Masts, Yards, and Bowspr...

9 December 1784My lord Duke We have received the Letter which your grace did us the honour of writing us on the 24th. day of Last month, and we received with much ...

9 December 1784Sir We have received your letter of the 16th. of Novr. wherein you are pleased to inform us that you had communicated to His Royal Highness the Grand...

11 December 1784Sir I received in due Season and in good Condition your Favour of the 7. of Nov.— But Dr Franklin being confined to his House by the Stone, and Mr Je...

12 December 1784Dear Sir A Gentleman in Boston, who is as much a Friend of Mankind, as he is of me, Mr James Lovell, Naval Officer has desired me to procure him the ...

12 December 1784My dear Sir. I know not whether you intend to serve in Congress again or not: but whether at Trenton, or Boston or Marblehead it would be very bad oe...

12 December 1784My dear Sir I am ashamed to confess that your Letter of the 5. of July is unanswered. But my dear Sir, I have been So roughly handled by various Clim...

12 December 1784Dear Sir This day twelve months I arrived at Boston from Europe, and when I consider that I have never written to you since, I am almost ashamed to d...

13 December 1784Dr Sir We are assembled under our new Commissions, and have begun our Negotiations at least by announcing our Mission to most of the Courts through t...

13 December 1784Sir I received your Favour of 18 August with its Accompaniments. We are all well and very happy. I should have been very glad to have received Mrs: M...

13 December 1784Madam Your Favour of the 1st. of June, has not, I fear been answered. I have indeed been very happy ever Since I received it. I live here, on a kind ...

13 December 1784Dear Sir One of these Days I shall devote a Leisure Hour to forming a Cypher, and will send it to You by the first good Conveyance that may afterward...

14 December 1784Sir, I thank you for your obliging letter of September 8, which I received in November. I now take the first opportunity that has offered of making y...

15 December 1784Sir I venture to address myself to you as Minister of foreign Affairs, because I Sincerely hope you have accepted that important Office. The Emperor ...

15 December 1784Sir I have just received your kind Letter of the 7. and am much obliged to you for your Information of So good an opportunity, to Boston. Mr Jackson ...

15 December 1784My dear Friend What would be the Consequence if We should have an immediate War with Great Britain? dont be allarmed there is no danger of it. but it...

15 December 1784Sir In our letter of Novr 11th. we had the honour of laying before Congress a state of our proceedings till that date. As from that it would appear t...

15 December 1784Messieurs J’ai rendu compte à ma Cour de l’ouverture contenue dans La Lettre que Vous m’avez fait l’honneur de m’écrire le 22. de Septembre dernier. ...

20 December 1784Sir In answer to your most esteem’d Favor of the 11th. Instt. we have the honour to advise, that you’ll find us at every Time disposed to give your E...

21 December 1784Dear Sir I have the pleasure to acknowledge the receipt of your kind favors of the 4th Septemr. and partake in the happiness of your being “at length...

21 December 1784Honourd and Worthy Sir! I now presume on the liberty of acquainting you of my arrival in this City and sincerely Lament am disappointed of the happin...

22 December 1784Sir The Capture of one or two of our Vessells by the Barbary Rovers, obliges Us to think Seriously of treating with the Port, Morocco, Algiers Tunis ...

22 December 1784Gentlemen On the Eleventh of this Month, I wrote you a Letter, in which I requested you to inform me, whether you had any Money of the United States...

25 December 1784Dear Sir As I passed through Nantes in my way to Bordeaux I received a letter from Mrs. Barclay wherin she mentions your Intention of going to Englan...

26 December 1784 Je Vous remercie, Monsieur, des éclaircissements que Vous avez bien Voulu me donner relativement aux matieres que L’On peut extraire de L’Amérique Se...

28 December 1784Sir, Permit me to answer briefly in poor English, your favour of the 11th. inst. An Ideot, no.—à Lunatick, may be for what I know.— With me, and othe...

30 December 1784Sir I write this to request information of you, what is necessary, right, & proper to be done by me on saturday next— You can doubtless tell, Sir, wh...

30 December 1784Sir By our last Respects to your Excellency of the 20th. of this Month, we had the Honor, in Answer to your Favor of the 11th, to mention what Sum of...

6 January 1785Sir In conformity to our Promise of last Thursday, we have now the Honour to advise your Excellency, that the Ballance of the Account of the United S...

8 January 1785Dear Sir In answer to your favour from Rochfort of the 25th Ult: I may inform you, entre nous that if I should go to England, Dr: F and Mr: J: will g...

10 January 1785Sir I have the Satisfaction, to inform Congress that by Letters from our Bankers, in Amsterdam, I am informed, they have in Hand, near a Million of G...

10 January 1785Gentlemen. I have received, with much Pleasure, your Letters of the 20th: and 30th: of December; give me leave to congratulate you, on the flouishing...

14 January 1785Gentlemen, On the 21st: Ultimo I accepted the Place of Secretary for foreign Affairs. All the foreign letters which had been received during the rec...

17 January 1785Sr: Tis with the utmost grief. I Acqt. you: the Accident which as befallen me. at my departure from Cadix. to Tereniffe. were I was bound to. but unf...

21 January 1785Sir We have received the letter you did us the honour to write us on the 10th day of December last. We supposed that the principles contained in the ...

21 January 1785Monsieur L’honorée vôtre du 22 Dec. m’étant bien parvenue, dans le temps justement où ces Messieurs de l’Amirauté ont quitté La Haie pour une vacance...

22 January 1785Messieurs Ayant eu lhonneur de mettre sous les yeux du Roi mon maître Votre lettre du 27 7bre. 1784 et Sa Majesté ayant fait mûrement éxaminer les pr...

28 January 1785My dear Sir. I Received your favour of the 27th. August. sometime ago. & Intended before this to have wrote to you. but want of direct Conveyance. & ...

30 January 1785My dear Friend I receiv’d your favour of the 4th: of last Novr: two days ago, by the way of New-York. This is the first I have been honoured with fro...

31 January 1785Dear Sir I learn with much Pleasure, that you are again in Congress, at the head of a respectable Delegation, and that the States in general are So ...

31 January 1785Dear Sir. Last Night, I had a visit from the Marquis, whom I was glad to see, for a variety of Reasons: his Representations of the Commerce, the Unio...

31 January 1785Dear Sir I have received your Favour of the 12th. August from New York, and by the Marquis de la Fayette who visited me last night, I have the Pleasu...

1 February 1785Duplicate Be it remembered that the within Contract or engagement entered into by the Honourable John Adams Esquire Minister Plenipotentiary of the U...

2 February 1785Sir Last week we have received your much esteem’d Favour of 10 January, and observed with much pleasure your Satisfaction on the flourishing State of...

2 February 1785Messieurs Ayant donné connoissance dans son tems à ma Cour de la lettre, que vous m’avez, Messieurs, fait l’honneur de m’écrire le 22. 7.bre de l’ann...

4 February 1785Sir, Count de Montauto Governor of this City has informed me of the Commissioners having made propositions to the Court of Tuscany respecting a Treat...

8 February 1785Dear Sir It was with very great Pleasure, that I learn’d your Return to Congress, and Election to the Chair. indeed So many names that are familiar t...

9 February 1785Sir In our last of Decr. 15 we had the honour of communicating to Congress our letter to the Ambassador of Portugal which accompanied the draught of ...

11 February 1785Sir I have now the Honor of transmitting to you herewith enclosed a Ratification made 1st Feby: instant of the contract or Engagement which you enter...

14 February 1785My dear sir This will be delivered by Mr Jarvis lately of Boston, but formerly of this City, Son in Law to Mr Broom, whom You probably know. I have b...

15 February 1785Mon cher monsieur Depuis bien du temps jay fait des recherches inutiles sur la partie de la terre que vous habitiez, on m’avoit même dit que vous eti...

16 February 1785Gentlemen. I have received your favour of the 6th: of January and that of the second of February and am much obliged to you for the particular Accoun...

17 February 1785Sir I have received your favour of 21 Decr. and congratulate you on your arrival, My health which you are so obliging as to inquire after is so much ...

24 February 1785my dear Mr Adams I informed You a few Days since, that Yourself, Mr Chancellor Levingston, & Mr J Rutledge, were in Nomination for the Court of Londo...

24 February 1785 The United States of America in Congress assembled. To our trusty and well beloved John Adams Esquire Send Greeting We reposing special trust and con...

25 February 1785Monsieur La copie ci-jointe de la réponse de Mr. le Conseiller Fiscal de l’Amirauté van der Hoop, aux questions que j’avois proposées de la part de l...

25 February 1785Dear Sir When I parted with you at Paris I flattered myself to have had the pleasure before this of seeing you here with Mrs Adams & your Family, but...

25 February 1785 je réponds bien tard, Monsieur, à la lettre que vous m’avez fait l’honneur de m’ecrire le 14 de ce mois; c’est que j’esperois de vous porter moi même...

27 February 1785Dear Sir I have received your obliging Letter of the 15th: of this Month, and am very sensible to your kind attention Last Summer, my dear Mrs: Adams...

4 March 1785Messieurs, Les Ordres du Roi dont je me trouve actuellement muni, me mettent à même de répondre plus amplement à la lettre dont Vous m’avez. honoré, ...

5 March 1785Dear Sir I had last night the Pleasure of your Letter of Decr: 21. I cannot, indeed Sir flatter myself at present that the Nation will receive, “the ...

5 March 1785My dear Mr Adams Since my last, informing You of the Circumstances of your Appointment to the Court of London, Congress have elected Colo Smith of th...

6 March 1785My dear Sir— I do not know whether I shoud congratulate you on your appointment to the Court of London; since it appears to me the most painful & dif...

7 March 1785Sir— We are favoured with yoúr Most Esteemed Letter of the 16t. feby. Whereout We Observe that Congress was to dispose in a Short time of the Moneý i...

7 March 1785 Instructions for the Minister Plenipotentiary appointed to represent the United States of America at the Court of Great Britain Sir You will in a res...

8 March 1785Dear Sir I received your Favour of 12 Decr, Some days ago, and rejoice to hear of your returning Health and increasing Family. I wish the Young Lady ...

9 March 1785My dear Sir You will See, by our joint Dispatches, that The Pope, Sardinia and Naples, by their Answers, have politely invited our Vessells into thei...

9 March 1785Sir Permit me to congratulate the United States, upon the Acquisition of a Minister of foreign Affairs, whose long Services have So justly acquired t...

11 March 1785Dear Sir I have received within a few days your obliging Favour of Nov: 22. The Removal of Congress to New York, where their residence will probably ...

11 March 1785Dear Sr.— The Dispute between New York & this State has been referred to Congress, a Federal Court has been appointed, the Judges have been chosen by...

11 March 1785Gentlemen On the 7th of May 1784 Congress were pleased to resolve “that Treaties of Amity and Commerce be entered into with Morocco, and the Regencie...

11 March 1785Duplicate. The United States in Congress Assembled. [11 March 1785] To all to whom these Presents shall come or be made known send Greeting: Whereas W...

11 March 1785 To the Great, Noble and Imperial Sovereign, the Emperor of Morocco.— We the United States of America in Congress Assembled, being desirous of cultiva...

15 March 1785Dear Sir The enclosed Extracts from the Journal of Congress will inform you of your Appointment to go as Minister to the Court of London, and of Mr. ...

18 March 1785Dear Sir I thank you for your favour by Mr West. I am of your opinion that the present Commission will never go to London, & am Still more convinced ...

18 March 1785Sir, We received by the last Packet the favor of your letter of Janry. 14. in which we have the agreeable information of your having accepted the app...

18 March 1785Monsieur, Depuis quelques jours mon Epouse, un peu mieux, me laisseroit sans peine pour elle, si l’extrême foiblesse qui lui reste, ne m’inquiettoit ...

18 March 1785Dear Sir The Packet not sailing until to morrow has put in my Power to get your Commission, Instructions and Letter of Credence completed. I also sen...

20 March 1785Gentlemen According to your desire, I went early this Morning to Versailles, and finding the Count de Vergennes unembarassed with Company, and only a...

22 March 1785Dear Sir, Pardon me if I again trouble you with a letter. I plead for my apology that the occasion does not relate entirely to myself—but in a degree...

26 March 1785Gentlemen, Having communicated to my Court the readiness you express’d in your Letter to me of the 9th. of December to remove to London for the purpo...

28 March 1785Dear Sir I have this moment received your Letter dated this month. your Letters always give me Pleasure, although the circumstances of the times have...

28 March 1785Sir We have the honour to enclose an extract of a letter from the Commissioners of the United States of America to Your Excellency dated Augst. 28th....

30 March 1785Sir: last night on my return from Versailles and the Sight of the gallant young Duke of Normandy. I found your Favour of the eighteenth with its Encl...

30 March 1785May it please Your Excellency! The orders I have lately reicived from Your Son Mr: J: Q: Adams for packing up his goods, on purpose to be Shipped to ...

31 March 1785Dear Sir, I have the Honor of transmitting to you herewith enclosed, a certified Copy of an Act of Congress of the 21st. Instant, instructing you to...

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