John Quincy Adams to John Adams, 24 June 1783

John Quincy Adams to John Adams

Hague June 24th. 1783

Honoured Sir

I receiv’d some days agone two setts of the 3d. and 4th. volumes of the Politique Hollandais, from Mr. Cerisier.1 I suppose your intention is to have them bound in the same manner as the 2. first, and shall therefore have it done.

I have been obliged to borrow a Suetonius. Please to let me know if you chuse I should Purchase one. There is an edition with the Commentaries of Ernesti which I believe would be the best.2

We have had no news about the Peace this long while: it seems it goes on but slowly. Tis said hostilities have commenced between the Russians and the Turks. Mr. van Berkel left Rotterdam, yesterday was a week and will probably sail within these two or three Days.

I am your Dutiful Son

J. Q. Adams

My best respects if you please to Messrs. Thaxter and Storer.

RC (Adams Papers).

1. Antoine Marie Cerisier was publisher of Le politique hollandais, a pro-American journal that appeared weekly in Amsterdam. Four bound volumes are preserved in JA’s library (Catalogue of JA’s Library description begins Catalogue of the John Adams Library in the Public Library of the City of Boston, Boston, 1917. description ends ).

2. Probably Suetonius, Opera ex recensione et cum animadversionibus, ed. J. A. Ernesti, 2d edn. rev., Leipzig, 1775. This work is in MQA.

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Title: John Quincy Adams to John Adams, 24 June 1783
Author: Adams, John Quincy
Recipient: Adams, John
Date: 24 June 1783

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Cite as: “John Quincy Adams to John Adams, 24 June 1783,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/04-05-02-0103. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Adams Family Correspondence, vol. 5, October 1782 – November 1784, ed. Richard Alan Ryerson. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993, p. 184.]

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