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From John Adams to Edward Augustus Holyoke, 3 April 1786

To Edward Augustus Holyoke

Grosvenor Square April 3. 1786 London

Sir

I now do myself the Honour of inclosing to you, as President of the Medical Society, the original Letters of Monsieur De Lassone Monsieur Geoffroy and Monsieur Vicq D’Azyr Copies of which I Suppose have been before recd.— The Vote of the Royal Society of Medicine in Parchment authenticated by its Officers is also inclosed, and a Journal.1

I received in due Season your Letter, inclosing a Vote of the Medical Society,2 both of which do me great honour. I ought to make my Apology for not answering that Letter, and for not transmitting these original Papers, sooner: but many Removals of my Papers and my Family with various Calls of public Service, have been the real cause.

With my best Respects to the Medical Society / and the most Sincere Wishes for their Pros / perity, I beg Leave to subscribe myself your / most obedient and obliged servant

John Adams.

RC (MaSaPEM:Holyoke Family Coll.); internal address: “Edward Augustus Holyoke Esqr / President of the Medical society.” LbC (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 ); APM Reel 113.

1. Since 1782 JA had facilitated a correspondence between the newly formed Massachusetts Medical Society and the Société royale de médecine at Paris. With this letter, JA resolved a query raised by Charles Storer in his of 23 Nov. 1785. The society’s receipt of published scientific research from Paris had been so slow, Storer wrote, that members worried “it has been stopped” (vol. 17:597, 598, 604, 605).

2. Vol. 15:349, 350.

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    “From John Adams to Edward Augustus Holyoke, 3 April 1786,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-18-02-0116. [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, p. 225.]

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