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From the Committee for Foreign Affairs
Docno: PJA11d386
Recipient: JA
Date: 1781-07-21
[dateline] Philada. July 21st. 1781
[salute] Sir
I do not find by President Huntington's Letter Book that he has forwarded the within Resolve of July 12th. respecting your Powers of Sept. 29th. 1779 therefore I take the Opportunity of two Vessels which are to sail in a few Hours, to communicate it doubly.
[salute] Your humble Servant
[signed] James Lovell
for the Comte. of for. Affrs.
for the Comte. of for. Affrs.
private
The whole of the Proceedings here in regard to your two Commissions, are I think, ||Ill judged but|| I persuade myself no ||dishonour was for you int||ended, the Business greatly in every view ||chagrins me||. This you will have learnt from my former Letters written in an half light.1
RC
and enclosure
Adams Papers
; addressed: “Honble. John Adams Holland or”; notation: “Forwarded by Yr. most hble Servt J Nesbitt”; endorsed: “Mr Lovels Letter July 21 1781”; notation on the second page of the letter: “Mr. J.A.”
1. Presumably Lovell's letters of 21 June and
[ca. 15 March]
, both above.
3. Vol. 10:305–306.
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/