1From John Adams to Edward Augustus Holyoke, 3 April 1786 (Adams Papers)
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 rec d. — The Vote of the Royal Society of Medicine in Parchment authenticated by its Officers is also inclosed, and a Journal. I received in due Season your Letter, inclosing a Vote...
2From John Adams to Edward Augustus Holyoke, 26 June 1786 (Adams Papers)
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 M r. Louis the Perpetual secretary, any thing in writing I supposed it was forgotten or neglected— it is but a few Day’s since the inclosed...