Wilhem & Jan Willink to John Adams, 1 July 1784

From Wilhem & Jan Willink

Amsterdam 1 July 1784.

Sir

We are favoured with your esteemed letter of 30th: June, we had wrote upon the same Subject to our Mr. Van Berckel, and he has been so obliging as to send us directly a letter for our minister in Bruxelles,1 to whom we Send the same, with your letter, in order to make the required use of the Same, so we hope may Soon be released and return hither, the advice we receive we shall not fail to communicate to your Excellency. in the meanwhile we have the honour to remain most Respectfully. / Sir / Your most Humb Servants

Wilhem & Jan Willink

RC (Adams Papers); internal address: “To his Excellency John Adams / Esqr L’ Hage.”

1. Presumably the Willinks had written to Engelbert François van Berckel, pensionary of Amsterdam, who in turn had written to Hendrik van Hop, Dutch minister to the Austrian Netherlands (Repertorium description begins Ludwig Bittner and others, eds., Repertorium der diplomatischen Vertreter aller Länder seit dem Westfälischen Frieden (1648), Oldenburg, 1936–1965; 3 vols. description ends , 3:266).

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Title: Wilhem & Jan Willink to John Adams, 1 July 1784
Author: Wilhem & Jan Willink
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Date: 1 July 1784

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Cite as: “Wilhem & Jan Willink to John Adams, 1 July 1784,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-16-02-0165. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Papers of John Adams, vol. 16, February 1784–March 1785, ed. Gregg L. Lint, C. James Taylor, Robert Karachuk, Hobson Woodward, Margaret A. Hogan, Sara B. Sikes, Sara Martin, Sara Georgini, Amanda A. Mathews, and James T. Connolly. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012, p. 265.]

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