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From John Adams to Antoine Marie Cerisier, 6 December 1787

To Antoine Marie Cerisier

Decr 6th. 1787.

Dear Sir.

After much anxiety on your account and many ineffectual Inquiries after your health & welfare, I was happy to learn by Your Letter,1 that you was safe at Paris, where I hope you will find friends, Employment & Satisfactions better than those you have left in Holland.—

Inclosed are letters of Introduction to Mr. Jefferson & the Marquis de Lafayette.2

The strange turn, which affairs have taken is shocking, The English however will not derive the advantages from it, they expect—Nor is France at so low an Ebb. or in so much danger, as some of her friends apprehend you need not dread the destruction of the french Marine—it is in no danger from the English, who will find it difficult enough to keep their heads above Water notwithstanding all their Bravadoes.

My tender regards to my old friends the Abby’s De Chalut & Arnoux, whom I am happy to find you have been acquainted with. they are & will be your very good friends.— I should be glad to hear of you, as often as convenient by private Hands.—the post should not be trusted—

with / great regard Dr Sir &c—

J. A.

LbC in WSS’s hand (Adams Papers); internal address: “Mr. A.M. Cerisier”; APM Reel 113.

1. Of 3 Nov., above.

2. Not found. Thomas Jefferson recorded that he received JA’s 6 Dec. letter of recommendation for Cerisier on 17 Dec. (Jefferson, Papers description begins The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Julian P. Boyd, Charles T. Cullen, John Catanzariti, Barbara B. Oberg, James P. McClure, and others, Princeton, N.J., 1950– . description ends , 12:397).

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    From John Adams to Antoine Marie Cerisier, 6 December 1787
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    Adams, John
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    Cerisier, Antoine Marie
    Date
    6 December 1787

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    “From John Adams to Antoine Marie Cerisier, 6 December 1787,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-19-02-0158. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Papers of John Adams, vol. 19, February 1787–May 1789, ed. Sara Georgini, Sara Martin, R. M. Barlow, Amanda M. Norton, Neal E. Millikan, and Hobson Woodward. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016, pp. 227–228.]

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