Adams Papers

From Jonathan Williams Jr. to John Adams, February 1793

From Jonathan Williams Jr.

Philadelphia     February 1793.1

Sir.—

The inclosed memoir has received no other Publicity than a reading before the Philosophical Society and a few Copies I had struck off for particular distribution: I shall think myself honoured by your acceptance of one Copy.2

Permit me also to avail myself of your Influence with the Accademy of arts & sciences and Humane Society in Boston, to make one acceptable to each of these Institutions, when you return thither.—

I have the honor to be / with perfect Respect & Deference / Sir / Your most obedient & / most humble Servant

Jona Williams

RC (Adams Papers); internal address: “The Vice President of the / United States.”

1. Blank in MS.

2. Williams enclosed his Memoir on the Use of the Thermometer in Navigation, Phila., 1792, Evans, description begins Charles Evans and others, American Bibliography: A Chronological Dictionary of All Books, Pamphlets and Periodical Publications Printed in the United States of America [1639–1800], Chicago and Worcester, Mass., 1903–1959; 14 vols., rev. edn., www.readex.com. description ends No. 25040.

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    Adams Papers
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    From Jonathan Williams Jr. to John Adams, February 1793
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    Williams, Jonathan Jr.
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    Adams, John
    Date
    1–28 February 1793

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    “From Jonathan Williams Jr. to John Adams, February 1793,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-21-02-0133. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Papers of John Adams, vol. 21, March 1791–January 1797, ed. Sara Georgini, Sara Martin, R. M. Barlow, Gwen Fries, Amanda M. Norton, and Hobson Woodward. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022, p. 182.]