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From Philippe André Joseph de Létombe
Docno: PJA12d035
Recipient: JA
Date: 1781-10-26
[dateline] Boston 8ber 26. 17811
[salute] Sir
I have received the packet your Excellency has honored me with from Leyden on the 11. instant of last march.2 I have forwarded his Letters according to their direction and I give him thousand thanks. I have Seen Mrs. Adams at Brentree and I Send you, Sir, a packet that She has caused to forward me yesterday.3 I herein inclose a very interressing pamphlet wich causes a Lively and général joy.4 I wish for the exchange of that glorious News, you would acquaint me soon with that of géneral Peace.
[salute] I have the honour to be, with greatest Respect, of your Excellency, the most-humble and most-obedient
[signed] Servant de Létombe
1. On 25 Oct. Gov. John Hancock officially recognized Létombe’s commission as French consul general. The governor’s proclamation appeared in Boston newspapers, including the Boston Evening Post of 27 October.
2. Vol. 11:193–194.
3. The packet included AA’s letters of 29 Sept. and 21 Oct. (
Adams Family Correspondence
, 4:220–222, 229–231).
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/