Adams Papers

John Adams and Abigail Adams to Benjamin Franklin, 11 September 1784

John Adams and Abigail Adams to Benjamin Franklin

Saturday Morning sept 11. 1784

Mr. and Mrs. Adams present their Compliments to Dr. Franklin and hope to have the Honour of his company to day at Dinner, with his Grandson Mr. Bache.1 They also beg the Favour of him to lend them the Assistance of one of his servants this morning if he can without Inconvenience as they are so unlucky as to have both their Men servants confined to their Chambers by very serious Sickness.

RC in JA’s hand (PPAmP: Franklin Papers); addressed: “His Excellency Dr. Franklin en son Hotel a Passy”; endorsed: “Adams 11 Sept. 1784.”

1. Benjamin Franklin Bache had accompanied his grandfather to Europe in 1776, was a schoolmate of JQA in Paris in 1778, and later studied in Geneva. He resumed his residence in Paris in 1783, and returned to Philadelphia with Franklin in 1785. JA, Diary and Autobiography description begins Diary and Autobiography of John Adams, ed. L. H. Butterfield and others, Cambridge, 1961; 4 vols. description ends , 2:301, note 1; 4:10; JQA, Diary description begins Diary of John Quincy Adams, ed. David Grayson Allen, Robert J. Taylor, and others, Cambridge, 1981-. description ends , 1:181, 182; DAB description begins Allen Johnson and Dumas Malone, eds., Dictionary of American Biography, New York, 1928–1936; 20 vols. plus index and supplements. description ends .

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    Adams Papers
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    John Adams and Abigail Adams to Benjamin Franklin, 11 September 1784
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    Adams, John
    Adams, Abigail
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    Franklin, Benjamin
    Date
    11 September 1784

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    “John Adams and Abigail Adams to Benjamin Franklin, 11 September 1784,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/04-05-02-0237. [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. 459.]