John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 30 May 1794

John Adams to John Quincy Adams

Philadelphia May 30. 1794

My Dear son

The Senate have this Day unanimously advised and consented to the Appointment of John Quincy Adams to the Hague.1

If this Event should affect your Sensibility as much as it does mine, it will made a deep Impression upon Your Mind, both of the Importance of the Mission and of your obligation to Gratitude Fidelity and Exertion in the Discharge of the Duties of it.

At two O Clock tomorrow Morning I Sett off homewards.

Adieu

John Adams

RC (Adams Papers); internal address: “J. Q. A.” Tr (Adams Papers).

1. See Sen. Exec. Jour., description begins Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States of America from the Commencement of the First to the Termination of the Nineteenth Congress, Washington, D.C., 1828; 3 vols. description ends 3d Cong., 1st sess., p. 159. JQA’s commission as minister resident, dated 30 May and signed by George Washington and Edmund Randolph, is in the Adams Papers.

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Title: John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 30 May 1794
Author: Adams, John
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Date: 30 May 1794

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Cite as: “John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 30 May 1794,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/04-10-02-0125. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Adams Family Correspondence, vol. 10, January 1794 – June 1795, ed. Margaret A. Hogan, C. James Taylor, Sara Martin, Hobson Woodward, Sara B. Sikes, Gregg L. Lint, and Sara Georgini. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011, pp. 199–200.]

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