Papers of John Adams, volume 21
y1792.
Mr Hammond has the honor of
sending to the Vice-President the last Monthly Review, and Gentleman’s
Magazine, and will be much obliged to him, if he will have the goodness to
return, by the bearer, the last English Newspapers, if he has perused
them1
RC (Adams Papers); endorsed: “Mr
Hammond / Jan 28th 1792.”
JA knew Hammond as David Hartley’s
secretary during the Anglo-American peace negotiations. Prior to his
recall in 1795, Hammond frequently socialized with the Adamses, carried
their letters, and forwarded London publications to JA and
Thomas Jefferson (
AFC
, 9:234,
275; Jefferson, Papers
, 23:52).