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Dates:

3 Oct. 1811

Original paper slip text:3 October 1811.

Author's location:

St. Petersburg, Russia

Original paper slip text:St. Petersburg Russia

Author:

John Quincy Adams

Original paper slip text:JQA

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Recipient:

James Monroe

Original paper slip text:to James Monroe

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Notes:

In Peter Force Papers, Series IX [Historical Mss.]
"Adams's furnishing the French ambassador with a list of American vessels that had arrived that year at Cronstadt...also furnishing a copy of the same list to Mr. Russell at Paris and notifying Russell of the motive in which the list was requested: to obtain a more speedy liberation of any of the vessels captured by the French privateers said to be stationed at the passage of the Sound [Oresund]. [About 3/4ths of this is in cypher, not here decyphered.]" (Adams Papers Office files, Box 6, of NP Search). --SEG, 2/17/2010

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