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From John Adams to Elbridge Gerry, 9 July 1778

To Elbridge Gerry

Passy, 9 July 1778. printed: JA, Diary and Autobiography description begins Diary and Autobiography of John Adams, ed. L. H. Butterfield and others, Cambridge, 1961; 4 vols. description ends , 4:149–150. Adams discussed Great Britain’s shortsighted and self-defeating policy in refusing a just treaty and, as an example of Britain’s self-deception and misunderstanding of America, pointed to a peace proposal, rejected out of hand, that sought to bribe American leaders by offering them peerages.

printed: (JA, Diary and Autobiography description begins Diary and Autobiography of John Adams, ed. L. H. Butterfield and others, Cambridge, 1961; 4 vols. description ends , 4:149–150).

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    From John Adams to Elbridge Gerry, 9 July 1778
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    “From John Adams to Elbridge Gerry, 9 July 1778,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-06-02-0204. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Papers of John Adams, vol. 6, March–August 1778, ed. Robert J. Taylor. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1983, p. 273.]

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