From John Adams to Pedro Casamayor & Company, 31 January 1780

To Pedro Casamayor & Company

Bourdeaux January 31. 1780

Gentlemen

On the 29th of this month, on my Arrival at this Place, I had the Honour of a polite Letter from your House, offering me your services and Assistance, particularly in the necessary Article of Cash, in Consequence of Recommendations from Mr. Lagoanere at Coruñna and Mr. Montgomery at Alicante.1 I am much obliged to you for the Honour you have done me by this Letter, and to Mr. Montgomery and Mr. Lagoanere for their Recommendations: But as many Circumstances conspired, to deprive me of the Pleasure which I very much desired of a Visit to Madrid, I had no Occasion, to trouble your House, to which I should certainly have paid my Respects, if I had gone there.

I am extreamly unhappy, to find there is no Intelligence of the Confederation, on Board of which Frigate Mr. Jay was embarked who is destined to Madrid.2 I have the Honour to be with much Respect, your most humble servant

LbC (Adams Papers).

1. The letter from Pedro Casamayor & Co. has not been found, but for the recommendations from Lagoanere and Montgomery, see Lagoanere to JA, 26 Dec. 1779, and note 8 (above); and JA to Montgomery, 31 Jan. (below).

2. See JA to John Bondfield, 31 Jan., note 2 (above).

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Title: From John Adams to Pedro Casamayor & Company, 31 January 1780
Author: Adams, John
Recipient: Casamayor, Pedro, & Company
Date: 31 January 1780

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Cite as: “From John Adams to Pedro Casamayor & Company, 31 January 1780,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-08-02-0199. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Papers of John Adams, vol. 8, March 1779 – February 1780, ed. Gregg L. Lint, Robert J. Taylor, Richard Alan Reyerson, Celeste Walker, and Joanna M. Revelas. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1989, p. 314.]