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Browsing: Papers of John Adams, Volume 12
Docno: ADMS-06-12-02-0217
Recipient: Adams, John
Date: 1782-03-22
From Leendert de Neufville
[dateline] from [ . . . ]22 March 82
[salute] Sir
Our Good friend Dumas beggd that I would inform Your Excelency of this—L’Emissaire
P W devait partir hier pour Amsterdam. Il n’en a rien fait. Il est encore ici. Je
crois et d’autres aussi que ce n’est pas Ce dis promis.1 Others Say however Confidentally that he has gone.
We have very Satisfactory tidings from Rotterdam and Dort. They are in motion at Utrecht.
As I expect Some Gentn with me I am prevented from going out but hope to pay Your
Excellency my respects to morrow meanwhile I am with very great respect & great hurry
Your Excellencys most obt hb St
[signed] L de Neufville Son of
RC (Adams Papers).
1. Leendert de Neufville’s handwriting at best is difficult to read. This is particularly
true of the French passage, which has been rendered by the editors as accurately as
possible. The passage reads: The emissary Paul Wentworth was supposed to leave yesterday
for Amsterdam. He did not. He is still here. I believe, as do others here, that it
is not the said promised one. Because Dumas indicated in his letter of 20 March to JA, above, that Wentworth had left The Hague that day, his communication to Neufville
was probably on the 21st.
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, 2016.
http://www.masshist.org/apde2/
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