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From John Adams to C. W. F. Dumas, 18 October 1781

To C. W. F. Dumas

Amsterdam Octr. 18. 1781

Dr Sir

It is a long time Since I had the Pleasure of writing to you. I have been, to the very gate of the other Mansion. My Feet had well nigh Stumbled on the dark mountains: but by the Skill of Dr Osterdike1 and the Barks wondrous Virtue, I am returned here to take two or three more Lessons of Politicks.

If your affairs will admit of your Spending Some time at Amsterdam, I should be obliged to you, if you would take an appartment in my House. The Sooner the better. I desired Mr Thaxter to write you an Invitation in my name, when I was too weak to write. He wrote but has no answer.2 How go the Politicks of the Hague? Will they ever answer my Memorial?

I am, &c

LbC (Adams Papers.)

1Nicolaas George Oosterdijk, professor of medical theory at the University of Leyden (Adams Family Correspondence description begins Adams Family Correspondence, ed. L. H. Butterfield and others, Cambridge, 1963–. description ends , 4:224).

2See Thaxter’s letter of 24 Sept. (vol. 11:492) and Dumas’ response of 13 Oct., above.

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