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From John Adams to C. W. F. Dumas, 30 April 1781

To C. W. F. Dumas

Leyden April 30. 1781

Dear Sir

Arriving this moment, I received your Favour of 26; and am happy to find that you continue in the Same Sentiments. I am Still of the Same mind too, and I Shall call on you, tomorrow, when we will arrange all Things. I wish you would loose no time, in getting a certain Paper, well translated into Dutch.1

I am as usual, Yours

John Adams

Tr (PCC, No. 101, II, f. 181).

1JA’s memorial of 19 April, above, was translated into Dutch by Wybo Fynje, editor of Delft’s Hollandsche Historische Courant and brother-in-law of Jean Luzac (JA, Corr. in the Boston Patriot description begins Correspondence of the Late President Adams. Originally Published in the Boston Patriot. In a Series of Letters, Boston, 1809[–1810]; 10 pts. description ends , p. 430; Adams Family Correspondence description begins Adams Family Correspondence, ed. L. H. Butterfield and others, Cambridge, 1963– . description ends , 4:117).

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