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From John Adams to Edward Augustus Holyoke, 26 June 1786

To Edward Augustus Holyoke

June 26, 1786—

Sir—

About the time of the proposition of a Correspondence between your society and the Royal society of Medicine at Paris, I made a similar overture to the Royal Accademy of Chirurgery, & met with a reception equally encouraging, but having never received from Mr. Louis the Perpetual secretary,1 any thing in writing I supposed it was forgotten or neglected— it is but a few Day’s since the inclosed extract from the registres of the Royal Accademy of Chirurgery was sent to me from Paris, and I embrace the first oppertunity of doing myself the honor of transmitting it to you, to be laid before the medical society of which you are President—2

Yours

J. A—

LbC in WSS’s hand (Adams Papers description begins Manuscripts and other materials, 1639–1889, in the Adams Manuscript Trust collection given to the Massachusetts Historical Society in 1956 and enlarged by a few additions of family papers since then. Citations in the present edition are simply by date of the original document if the original is in the main chronological series of the Papers and therefore readily found in the microfilm edition of the Adams Papers (APM). description ends ); internal address: “Edward Augustus Holyoke Esqr. / Prest. of the Medical society / of Massachusetts—”; APM Reel 113.

1. Antoine Louis (1723–1792), a noted French surgeon and longtime secretary of the Academy (Hoefer, Nouv. biog. générale description begins Jean Chrétien Ferdinand Hoefer, ed., Nouvelle biographie générale depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu’à nos jours, Paris, 1852–1866; 46 vols. description ends ).

2. See also JA’s 3 April letter to Holyoke, above, and Holyoke’s 27 Oct. reply to this letter, below.

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    “From John Adams to Edward Augustus Holyoke, 26 June 1786,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-18-02-0188. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Papers of John Adams, vol. 18, December 1785–January 1787, ed. Gregg L. Lint, Sara Martin, C. James Taylor, Sara Georgini, Hobson Woodward, Sara B. Sikes, Amanda M. Norton. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016, pp. 352–353.]

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