From John Adams to the President and Corporation of Harvard College, 3 March 1780

To the President and Corporation of Harvard College

Paris, 3 March 1780. LbC (Adams Papers).

This was a cover letter for that of 2 March from Antoine Court de Gébelin to the President and Corporation presenting the first six volumes of Gébelin’s nine volume Monde primitif to the college. John Adams’ letter, except for the formal opening and closing, and excerpts from Court de Gébelin’s letter, are printed in note 2 to a letter of 13 Oct. 1780 from Edward Wigglesworth, treasurer of Harvard College, to AA (Adams Family Correspondence description begins Adams Family Correspondence, ed. L. H. Butterfield and others, Cambridge, 1963–. description ends , 4:4–6). That note also contains an account of the means by which the six volumes reached their destination.

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Source Project: Adams Papers
Title: From John Adams to the President and Corporation of Harvard College, 3 March 1780
Author: Adams, John
Recipient: Harvard College
Date: 3 March 1780

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Cite as: “From John Adams to the President and Corporation of Harvard College, 3 March 1780,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-09-02-0006. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Papers of John Adams, vol. 9, March 1780 – July 1780, ed. Gregg L. Lint and Richard Alan Ryerson. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996, p. 7.]