Adams Papers

From John Adams to George Hammond, 16 August 1792

To George Hammond

Quincy August 16th. 1792

Dear Sir

I have this moment received your kind Letter of the 15th. and congratulate you on your Arrival in New England.1

If you will do me the Honour to take a Family Dinner with me on Sunday at Two o Clock you will very much oblige your old Friend and faithful humble Servant

John Adams

RC (private owner, 2013); internal address: “His Excellency / Mr Hammond.”

1. Hammond, on a summer tour that included New York City and Boston, wrote to JA on 15 Aug. to make dinner plans (Adams Papers). The Boston press welcomed the British minister as “a gentleman, whose attachment for this country, has exhibited itself in every measure” (Philadelphia Federal Gazette, 21 July; Boston Columbian Centinel, 29 Aug.).

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    Adams Papers
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    From John Adams to George Hammond, 16 August 1792
    Author
    Adams, John
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    Hammond, George
    Date
    16 August 1792

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    “From John Adams to George Hammond, 16 August 1792,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-21-02-0095. [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. 136.]

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