You
have
selected

  • Recipient

    • Vergennes, Charles Gravier …

  • Volume

    • Adams-01-02

Author

Sort: Frequency / Alphabetical

Show: Top 1

Period

Dates From

Dates To

Search help
Documents filtered by: Recipient="Vergennes, Charles Gravier, Comte de" AND Volume="Adams-01-02"
Results 1-1 of 1 sorted by date (ascending)
  • |<
  • <<
  • <
  • Page 1
  • >
  • >>
  • >|
1[Draft of a Letter to Vergennes, 10–11 February 1779.]Confidential (Adams Papers)
As your Excellency reads English perfectly well, my first Request is that you would not communicate this Letter, even to a Translator. I have hitherto avoided, in my single Capacity, giving your Excellency, any Trouble at all either by Letter or by Conversation. But the present Crisis Emergency demands that I should ask the Favour of your Excellency to explain my Sentiments to you, either by...