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From John Adams to Wilhem & Jan Willink, Nicolaas & Jacob van Staphorst, and De la Lande & Fynje, 29 December 1783

To Wilhem & Jan Willink, Nicolaas & Jacob van Staphorst, and De la Lande & Fynje

London Decr: 29th. 1783.

Gentlemen.

I have just received the Letter, you did me the Honour to write me on the 23d: instt: and approve very much of your proposed application to the Regency of Amsterdam. But I hope to consult with you, more particularly very soon.— I shall sett off as soon as possible, but as I must go round by Calais and Antwerp. and the Season is extremely rigorous, and travelling very bad, I fear it will be ten Days before I can pay my Respects to you at Amsterdam. I will however lose as little Time as possible.1

With great Regards I have the Honour to be, Gentlemen, your most Obedient, Humble Servant.

LbC in JQA’s hand (Adams Papers); internal address: “Messrs: Wilhem and Jan Willink / Nicholas and Jacob Van Staphorst / and De la Lande and Fynje.”; APM Reel 107.

1. For an account of JA’s harrowing journey, which followed a different route, see his 24 Jan. 1784 letter to Benjamin Franklin, below.

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    Adams Papers
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    From John Adams to Wilhem & Jan Willink, Nicolaas & Jacob van Staphorst, and De la Lande & Fynje, 29 December 1783
    Author
    Adams, John
    Recipients
    Staphorst, Nicolaas & Jacob van (business)
    Willink, Wilhem & Jan (business)
    La Lande & Fynje, de (business)
    Date
    29 December 1783

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    “From John Adams to Wilhem & Jan Willink, Nicolaas & Jacob van Staphorst, and De la Lande & Fynje, 29 December 1783,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-15-02-0213. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Papers of John Adams, vol. 15, June 1783–January 1784, ed. Gregg L. Lint, C. James Taylor, Robert F. Karachuk, Hobson Woodward, Margaret A. Hogan, Sara B. Sikes, Mary T. Claffey, and Karen N. Barzilay. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010, p. 438.]