James Lovell to Abigail Adams, 3 September 1780

James Lovell to Abigail Adams

Sepr. 3d. 1780

Madam

I have at length an Opportunity by Mr. Brown1 to forward Bills of Exchange; and I only add the News Paper of Yesterday. Bell so long expected from France is arrived. He sailed with the Alliance. You know much more of your Mr. Adams than we, as only a Letter of April 10th. is come to hand from him.2 I assure you we feel very angry with Somebody, as neither Congress or the Minister have yet received a single Letter brought by the Alliance twenty days ago.

Your most obedt.

J L

RC (Adams Papers). Enclosed “Bills of Exchange” (not found) paid the balance due JA on his accounts for 1778–1779 as settled finally on 15 April 1780; see Lovell to AA, 14 May, above, and references in note 3 there. Enclosed newspaper not found.

1. This Mr. Brown, obviously not Joseph Brown Jr. of South Carolina, mentioned several times just above, has not been further identified.

2. JA addressed the first, second, and third letters to President Huntington of 10 April that survive in PCC, No. 84, I, and in JA’s letterbooks; two are printed in Wharton, ed., Dipl. Corr. Amer. Rev. description begins Francis Wharton, ed., The Revolutionary Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States, Washington, 1889; 6 vols. description ends , 3:604–608.

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Title: James Lovell to Abigail Adams, 3 September 1780
Author: Lovell, James
Recipient: Adams, Abigail
Date: 3 September 1780

Reference

Cite as: “James Lovell to Abigail Adams, 3 September 1780,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/04-03-02-0297. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Adams Family Correspondence, vol. 3, April 1778 – September 1780, ed. L. H. Butterfield and Marc Friedlaender. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1973, p. 409.]

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