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 (r. / Prest. of the Medical society / of Massachusetts—”; APM Reel 113.
); internal address: “Edward Augustus Holyoke Esq1. Antoine Louis (1723–1792), a noted French surgeon and longtime secretary of the Academy ( ).
2. See also JA’s 3 April letter to Holyoke, above, and Holyoke’s 27 Oct. reply to this letter, below.