Mr Hammond has the honor of sending to the Vice-President the last Monthly Review, and Gentleman’s Magazine, and will be much obliged to him, if he will have the goodness to return, by the bearer, the last English Newspapers, if he has perused them1
RC (Adams Papers); endorsed: “Mr Hammond / Jan 28th 1792.”
1. JA knew Hammond as David Hartley’s secretary during the Anglo-American peace negotiations. Prior to his recall in 1795, Hammond frequently socialized with the Adamses, carried their letters, and forwarded London publications to JA and Thomas Jefferson (AFC description begins Adams Family Correspondence, ed. L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Richard Alan Ryerson, Margaret A. Hogan, Sara Martin, Hobson Woodward, and others, Cambridge, 1963– . description ends , 9:234, 275; Jefferson, Papers description begins The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Julian P. Boyd, Charles T. Cullen, John Catanzariti, Barbara B. Oberg, James P. McClure, and others, Princeton, N.J., 1950– . description ends , 23:52).
