23d. Sunday.

This afternoon I went and paid a visit to the Baron de la Houze1 the French Minister here; he offer’d to send any letter I should write to my Father with his Dispatches to Mr. De Vergennes.2

1. Matthieu de Basquiat, Baron de la Houze, French minister plenipotentiary to Denmark, 1779–1792 (Repertorium der diplomatischen Vertreter aller Länder description begins Ludwig Bittner and others, eds., Repertorium der diplomatischen Vertreter aller Länder seit dem Westfälischen Frieden (1648), Oldenburg, 1936–1965; 3 vols. description ends , p. 112).

2. Charles Gravier, Comte de Vergennes, minister of foreign affairs during the American Revolution.

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Source Project: Adams Papers
Title: 23d. Sunday.
Author: Adams, John Quincy
Date: 23 February 1783

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Cite as: “23d. Sunday.,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/03-01-02-0005-0002-0017. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Diary of John Quincy Adams, vol. 1, November 1779 – March 1786, ed. Robert J. Taylor and Marc Friedlaender. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981, p. 173.]