Adams Papers

From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 4 April 1794

To Thomas Jefferson

Philadelphia April 4. 1794

Dear sir

The inclosed Volume was lately Sent in to me by a Servant— I have Since heard that the Author of it is in New York.1 The Book exhibits a curious Picture of the Government of Berne and is well worth reading.

I congratulate you on the charming opening of the Spring and heartily wish I was enjoying of it as you are upon a Plantation; out of the hearing of the Din of Politicks and the Rumours of War. This felicity will not fall to my Share I fear before June.

I am sir / with great Regard your humble / servant

John Adams.

RC (DLC:Jefferson Papers); internal address: “Mr Jefferson”; endorsed: “Adams John. Phila. Apr. 4. 94. / recd. Apr. 16.”

1. JA enclosed Jean Jacques Cart’s Lettres … à Bernard Demuralt, trésorier du pays de Vaud, sur le droit public de ce pays, et sur les événemens actuels, Paris, 1793. Originally from Morges, Switzerland, Cart (1748–1813) compared the American and Swiss constitutional models. The author also sent a presentation copy, which is in JA’s library at MB (AFC description begins Adams Family Correspondence, ed. L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Richard Alan Ryerson, Margaret A. Hogan, Sara Martin, Hobson Woodward, and others, Cambridge, 1963– . description ends , 10:302; Myron Luehrs Tripp, Swiss and United States Federal Constitutional Systems: A Comparative Study, Paris, 1940, p. 21; 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 ).

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    From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 4 April 1794
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    Adams, John
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    Jefferson, Thomas
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    4 April 1794

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    “From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 4 April 1794,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-21-02-0196. [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. 271.]

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