Adams Papers

From John Adams to George Hammond, 16 June 1794

To George Hammond

Quincy June 16. 1794

Dear sir

Permit me to introduce to you, rather too formally to be sure, as it is an old Acquaintance, my son John Quincy Adams, whom the President has honoured with an appointment to Holland.

His Disposition to Peace is as hearty. as that of his Father, and in every Thing that may depend upon him, his Endeavours will not be wanting I presume to preserve it. Mrs Adams joins me in Compliments to Mrs Hammond.1 With great / and sincere Esteem I have the honour / to be &c.

John Adams

RC (NHyF:Historical Manuscripts Coll.); internal address: “Mr Hammond / Minister Plenipotentiary from / The King of G. Britain.”

1. Margaret Allen, of Philadelphia, married Hammond on 20 May 1793 (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 , 9:473).

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    From John Adams to George Hammond, 16 June 1794
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    Adams, John
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    Hammond, George
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    16 June 1794

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    “From John Adams to George Hammond, 16 June 1794,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-21-02-0216. [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, pp. 292–293.]

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