Papers of John Adams, volume 21
I have the honor to advise you of my arrival to this City on thursday last; the important news from Europe, furnished us on that day, by an arrival from France, you have e’re this received
The inclosed containing the speech of Governor Jay to our
Legislature I have taken the Liberty to transmit for your perusal; from 530 the choice of the Council of
appointment, we are made happy in the overthrow, of intrugue and the
blighting of democratic exertion—1
I am preparing to depart for philadelphia tomorrow—and
with respects to your Lady, I have the honor to Remain / Your Obt. Servt:
RC (Adams Papers); internal address: “The President of the United States.”
Samuel Bayard Malcom (1776–1815), Columbia 1794,
formally stepped in as JA’s private secretary in
mid-February, but from 18 Jan., LbC’s in JA’s
Letterbook begin to appear in his hand. The enclosure, not found, was
John Jay’s 1 Nov. 1796 address to the New York State legislature
commenting on a wide swath of domestic and foreign affairs. Jay honored
George Washington’s presidential service and asked citizens to
deliberate in the upcoming federal election with the “utmost Care and
Circumspection” (
AFC
, 10:249,
11:508; Jay, Selected
Papers
, 6:503–507).