BIB_ID
80004
Accession number
MA 6017
Creator
Adams, John, 1735-1826, sender.
Display Date
1785 May 22.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 23.3 x 18.9 cm
Notes
Addressed to "A son Excellence / Monsieur Jefferson / Ministre Plenipotertiaire des / Etes Unis De L'Amorique a la Cour / de France / Cul-de-Sac Tetbout / Paris."
Jefferson was Ambassador to France at the time this letter was written.
Docketed in ink on verso.
From page 11 of Adams album.
From Jefferson Autographs.
Jefferson was Ambassador to France at the time this letter was written.
Docketed in ink on verso.
From page 11 of Adams album.
From Jefferson Autographs.
Summary
Describing his journey toward London; remarking on the state of drought in France; praising the passages on slavery in Jefferson's Notes on the state of Virginia; adding that "[t]he Ladies say you should have mentioned [Benjamin] West and [John Singleton] Copley at least among your American Genius's, because they think them the greatest Painters of the Age"; mentioning the regret they feel at parting with their son and leaving their friends in and around Paris, as well as the "dull political Prospect before us, on the other Side of the Channell."
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