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To John Adams from Edmund Jenings, 19 September 1782

From Edmund Jenings

Brussells, Septr. 19. 1782

Sir

I inclose herewith some Slips which came to Hand by the last Mail.1

A Letter from Mr L of the 7th Instant has the following Paragraph.

I have had the Honour of corresponding with Mr Adams, All is well, it could not be otherwise it cannot be otherwise, when Men are not determined to be Knaves or Fools.2

I am Happy to find Mr L satisfied with your Excellencys Conduct towards Him. I have sent the Copies of the Commissions to Paris to be delivered to Him should He pass through that City, but this does not seem probable, He having desired me to write to Him at Calais post restante. He means to avoid Paris if possible.

I have the Honour of being Sir your Excellencys Most Obedient Humble Servt.

Edm: Jenings

RC (Adams Papers).

1. These were JA’s “Letters from a Distinguished American” and may have included those published in Parker’s General Advertiser and Morning Intelligencer on 30 Aug. and 3 and 11 Sept. (vol. 9:550–553, 574–578, 571–574).

2. For Laurens’ 7 Sept. letter and the use that he and Edmund Jenings made of it in the course of their dispute over the anonymous letters, see Laurens, Papers description begins The Papers of Henry Laurens, ed. Philip M. Hamer, George C. Rogers Jr., David R. Chesnutt, C. James Taylor, and others, Columbia, S.C., 1968–2003; 16 vols. description ends , 16:289.

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    To John Adams from Edmund Jenings, 19 September 1782
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    Jenings, Edmund
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    Adams, John
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    19 September 1782

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    “To John Adams from Edmund Jenings, 19 September 1782,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-13-02-0205. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Papers of John Adams, vol. 13, May–October 1782, ed. Gregg L. Lint, C. James Taylor, Margaret A. Hogan, Jessie May Rodrique, Mary T. Claffey, and Hobson Woodward. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006, p. 478.]

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