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Browsing: Papers of John Adams, Volume 9
To the President of Congress, No. 25
Docno: PJA09d060
Recipient: Huntington, Samuel
Recipient: President of Congress
Date: 1780-03-24
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[dateline] Paris, 24 March 1780
RC (PCC, No. 84, I, f. 353–356). LbC in John Thaxter's hand (Adams Papers); notation by Thaxter: “Nos. 24 & 25 deliverd Mr. Izard 25th. March 1780.” printed:Wharton, ed., Dipl. Corr. Amer. Rev.
, 3:570–572.
In this letter, received by Congress on 31 July and read on 1 Aug., John Adams, using information in British newspapers, analyzed the events leading to Rodney's victory over the Spanish and his relief of Gibraltar. He then described resolutions taken by an Assembly at Dublin on 22 Feb., which called on Irish legislators to deny the right of the British Parliament to legislate for Ireland. Adams believed that this and similar disputes were evidence of the British Empire's decline.
RC
PCC, No. 84, I, f. 353–356.
LbC
in John Thaxter's hand
Adams Papers
; notation by Thaxter: “Nos. 24 & 25 deliverd Mr. Izard 25th. March 1780.”
printed:
Wharton, ed., Dipl. Corr. Amer. Rev.
, 3:570–572.
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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