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Browsing: Papers of John Adams, Volume 11
Docno: ADMS-06-11-02-0124-0002
Recipient: Adams, John
Date: 1781-03-07
C. W. F. Dumas to John Adams: A Translation
[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
[signed] Dumas
RC (Adams Papers).
1. This is Dumas' letter of 5 March to the president of Congress (Wharton, ed., Dipl. Corr. Amer. Rev., 4:273–274). Dumas noted that JA visited him on 4 March and informed him of the December dispatches that he received
from Congress. Dumas was eager to assist JA and hoped that his efforts would be successful. When Dumas' letter reached Congress,
James Lovell copied the paragraph and sent it to AA in a letter of 26 June (Adams Family Correspondence, 4:162–164).
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, 2018.
http://www.masshist.org/apde2/
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