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To John Adams from the Committee for Foreign Affairs, 28 October 1780

From the Committee for Foreign Affairs

Oct. 28th. 1780

Dear Sir

I shall endeavor to write largely to you, en Ami, but I will not risque the Sailing of the Vessel for that Purpose, at this moment. It is reported Mr. Searle is taken; our Affairs in Holland must in such Case be very bad as you will not have received any Powers for acting instead of Mr. Laurens who is too probably taken and carried to England from New foundland. And I also know of other Fatalities to my Letters.

Your Friend & humb Servt.

James Lovell

C of f Affs.

RC (Adams Papers); address fragment: “ance”; endorsed: “Mr Lov[ell].”

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    To John Adams from the Committee for Foreign Affairs, 28 October 1780
    Authors
    Lovell, James
    Continental Congress, Foreign Affairs Committee
    Recipient
    Adams, John
    Date
    28 October 1780

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    “To John Adams from the Committee for Foreign Affairs, 28 October 1780,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-10-02-0161. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Papers of John Adams, vol. 10, July 1780 – December 1780, ed. Gregg L. Lint and Richard Alan Ryerson. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996, p. 311.]