Note. Evidence that this letter was to Brisler is in Cotton Tufts to AA, 9 April 1800 (CDF). For AA's replies to Bates's queries, see AA to Mary Cranch, 15 April 1800 (New Letters, p. 245).
This letter has been reproduced (as "John Bates to JA") in the Newsweek John Adams, p. 390.