Adams Papers Digital Edition

Papers of John Adams, volume 11

From Benjamin Franklin

From Edmund Jenings
To C. W. F. Dumas, 30 April 1781 Dumas, Charles William Frederic JA

1781-04-30

 To C. W. F. Dumas, 30 April 1781 Dumas, Charles William Frederic Adams, John
To C. W. F. Dumas
Dear Sir Leyden April 30. 1781

Arriving this moment, I received your Favour of 26; and am happy to find that you continue in the Same Sentiments. I am Still of the Same mind too, and I Shall call on you, tomorrow, when we will arrange all Things. I wish you would loose no time, in getting a certain Paper, well translated into Dutch.1

I am as usual, Yours John Adams

Tr (PCC, No. 101, II, f. 181).

1.

JA's memorial of 19 April, above, was translated into Dutch by Wybo Fynje, editor of Delft's Hollandsche Historische Courant and brother-in-law of Jean Luzac (JA, Corr. in the Boston Patriot , p. 430; Adams Family Correspondence , 4:117).