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John Adams to John Quincy Adams
Docno: AFC05d089
Recipient: JQA
Date: 1783-05-13
[dateline] Paris 13. May 1783
[salute] My dear son
No Letters from you by the two last Posts. Let me hear from you as Soon and as often as you can. This is the only Substitute for the Pleasure of Seeing you, which I fear I cannot enjoy for Some time, as the Conferences for the definitive Treaty languish more than I could wish.
When I desired you to send me an Account of your Expences, I did not mean a particular Account, but only the Amount, or Sum total of all your Expences upon your Journey from Petersbourg. You
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must write to Mr. Dana too, if you have not already done it, an Account of all the Money you took up, on his Account on the Road.
[salute] My Compliments to Mr. Dumas and the Family. Your affectionate Father
[signed] John Adams
RC
Adams Papers
; addressed: “Hotel des Etats Unis D'Amerique A la Haye”; docketed by JA: “J.A. May: 13. 1783.”
Cite web page as: Founding Families: Digital Editions of the Papers of the Winthrops and the Adamses, ed.C. James Taylor. Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 2007.
http://www.masshist.org/ff/
http://www.masshist.org/ff/