6. In response to his letters of inquiry after JQA's whereabouts that he sent northward in early February (see JA to AA, 4 Feb.,
note 5, above), JA received several replies in March. Two from Dumas, 18 and 28 March (both
Adams Papers) relayed the favorable impressions that JQA had made on several important persons at Copenhagen and Hamburg. A 28 Feb. letter from Mr. Brandenburg of Stockholm (
Adams Papers), sent independently of JA's inquiries, concurred in this judgment of young JQA.