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Browsing: Papers of John Adams, Volume 6
To Elbridge Gerry
Docno: PJA06d236
Recipient: Gerry, Elbridge
Date: 1778-07-09
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[dateline] Passy, 9 July 1778.
printed: JA, Diary and Autobiography
, 4:149–150. Adams discussed Great Britain's shortsighted and self-defeating policy in refusing a just treaty and, as an example of Britain's self-deception and misunderstanding of America, pointed to a peace proposal, rejected out of hand, that sought to bribe American leaders by offering them peerages.
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JA, Diary and Autobiography
, 4:149–150
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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/
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