Browsing: Adams Family Correspondence, Volume 3

6. Thus punctuated in MS. A full stop would be appropriate after either “you” or “situations.”

This letter of course did not reach JA before he sailed for home on 17 June. It was evidently held for him in France, for on 16 March 1780 he answered it in very affectionate terms from Paris some weeks after his return there; see his letter of that date, below.