From John Adams to William Stephens Smith, 19 September 1785
To William Stephens Smith
Grosvenor Square Septr. 19. 1785
Dear Sir
I have recd your Favours from Harwich, Amsterdam and Berlin, and congratulate you on your Reception by the King of Prussia.1
I Shall have much Occasion for your Assistance but Still I would not advise you, to leave Paris without Spending a Week or Ten Days there and being presented by Mr Jefferson to the King, provided there is a Court day at Versailles.
I have been much pressed with Business since you left me, but by the Help of Mr Storer and Coll Franks I have got through. the former is now embarked if not Sailed for New York and I have no Assistance whatever2
with great Esteem your Friend & / sert
John Adams
RC (private owner, 2004); internal address: “Coll Smith.”
1. WSS’s letter from Berlin was of 5 Sept., above. For the other two letters, neither of which has been found, see note 1 to that letter. WSS also wrote a 5 Sept. letter to AA, to which she replied on 18 Sept. ( , 6:340–342, 365–366, 368–369).
2. For the departures of Charles Storer and David Franks, both apparently on 19 Sept., see AA’s letter of 18 Sept., same, p. 369.