From Edmund Randolph to John Adams, 2 April 1795

From Edmund Randolph

Philadelphia April 2. 1795.

Dear sir

I have the honor of returning to you the letter of Mr. J. Q. Adams.1 It is one among the many proofs of his attention, penetration and fitness for his present functions; which I feel a sincere pleasure in announcing on all proper occasions. The President desires me to present his acknowledgments to you for the communication.

It will be agreeable to you to learn, that no intelligence from Amsterdam gives the least reason to expect, that your sons will be placed in any jeopardy by the late catastrophe in Holland; and that our instructions do not require the minister at the Hague to incur the smallest personal danger.

If you are not a subscriber to Bache’s scandalous chronicle,2 it may be a subject of momentary Amusement to be now informed, that it is filled with discussions on the treaty; not one word of which, I believe, is known thro’ a regular channel to any person here, but the President and myself.

I have the honor to be / with great respect, dear sir / Sincerely yours

Edm: Randolph

RC (Adams Papers); internal address: “The hoñble / J. Adams / Braintree near / Boston.”

1. Randolph returned JQA’s 21 Dec. 1794 letter to JA, above.

2. Benjamin Franklin Bache (1769–1798) was Benjamin Franklin’s grandson. Formerly a classmate of JQA’s in Passy, France, he printed the Philadelphia Aurora General Advertiser, which cultivated pro-French sentiments throughout the 1790s (Jay, Selected Papers description begins The Selected Papers of John Jay, ed. Elizabeth M. Nuxoll and others, Charlottesville, Va., 2010– . description ends , 3:446; 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 , 3:15, 14:403).

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Title: From Edmund Randolph to John Adams, 2 April 1795
Author: Randolph, Edmund
Recipient: Adams, John
Date: 2 April 1795

Reference

Cite as: “From Edmund Randolph to John Adams, 2 April 1795,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-21-02-0285. [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. 388–389.]

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