Adams Papers Digital Edition

Papers of John Adams, volume 21

From Tench Coxe

From Alexander Hamilton
John Adams to George Hammond, 16 August 1792 Adams, John Hammond, George
To George Hammond
Dear Sir Quincy August 16th. 1792

I have this moment received your kind Letter of the 15th. and congratulate you on your Arrival in New England.1

If you will do me the Honour to take a Family Dinner with me on Sunday at Two o Clock you will very much oblige your old Friend and faithful humble Servant

John Adams

RC (private owner, 2013); internal address: “His Excellency / Mr Hammond.”

 1.

Hammond, on a summer tour that included New York City and Boston, wrote to JA on 15 Aug. to make dinner plans (Adams Papers). The Boston press welcomed the British minister as “a gentleman, whose attachment for this country, has exhibited itself in every measure” (Philadelphia Federal Gazette, 21 July; Boston Columbian Centinel, 29 Aug.).