Docno: ADMS-06-11-02-0124-0002
Author: Dumas, Charles William Frederic
Recipient: Adams, John
Date: 1781-03-07
[dateline] The Hague, 7 March 1781
[salute] Sir
I have the honor to communicate to you, through the enclosed letter to Congress, what
I read to you from my short note.
1
After much reflection on our conversation, I persist in the idea of not using the
phrase
of the armed neutrality being a consequence of the American revolution, even in your letter to those here.
2 They are well aware of it and their anglomanes will think it a crime. It is better
to use this idea in the next letter, but in the first attempt, I believe it is best
to keep it simple. Besides, sir, you always do what you judge to be appropriate and
I will deliver your letters, when you send them to me, in the order that we find agreeable.
I will send the remaining notebooks to your son very shortly.
I have the honor to be with great respect, sir, your very humble and very obedient
servant