From John Adams to United States Congress, 18 June 1798
United States June 18th 1798
Gentlemen of the Senate and Gentlemen of the House of Representatives—
I, now transmit to Congress the dispatch number, 8. from our Envoys Extraordinary, to the French Republic, which was received at the Secretary of State’s office on thursday, the fourteenth day of this month
John Adams
DNA: RG 46—Records of the U.S. Senate.