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To Arnold Henri Dohrman
Docno: PJA11d043
Recipient: Dohrman, Arnold Henri
Date: 1781-01-18
[dateline] Amsterdam Jan. 18. 1781
[salute] Sir
I have the Honour, to transmit you, a Letter from the Honourable the Committee of Congress for foreign Affairs, with a Resolution of Congress of the 21. of June last, appointing you Agent for the United States of America, in the Kingdom of Portugal, for the Transaction
{p. 57}
of Such Affairs of the Said States as may be committed to your Direction.1 As I am, by the Misfortune of Mr. Laurens, at present fixed in this Place, I shall be particularly happy in your Correspondence, and have the Honour to be, with great Consideration, sir your most obedient and most humble servant.
[signed] John Adams
RC
Private owner, 1961.
1. JA quotes from the resolution enclosed in the Committee's letter to Dohrman of 11 July (
JCC
, 17:541–542; Smith, ed., Letters of Delegates
, 15:425–426). Although Francis Dana did not mention them in his letter of 10 Jan., calendared above, the two documents were probably among those he forwarded as enclosures.
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/