Adams Papers

From John Quincy Adams to John Adams, 17 April 1796

From John Quincy Adams

London April 17. 1796.

My Dear Sir.

Mr: Robert Bird, the bearer of this letter, is a respectable merchant of this place, a brother of the Gentleman with whom you had the pleasure of an acquaintance some years since, at New-York. He proposes making a tour in the United States, during the ensuing Season, and I am happy to have this opportunity of introducing him to your acquaintance, and recommending him to your attentions.1

I am, very affectionately, your Son

John Q. Adams.

RC (Adams Papers); addressed: “The Vice-President of the United States. / Philadelphia. / or Quincy / near Boston.”; internal address: “The Vice-President.”; endorsed: “John Q Adams / 1796.” FC-Pr (Adams Papers); APM Reel 131.

1. Robert Bird (b. 1760) was a partner in the London mercantile and banking firm of Bird, Savage, & Bird, which later held sway in the Adamses’ financial investments (Franklin, Papers description begins The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, ed. Leonard W. Labaree, William B. Willcox, Claude A. Lopez, Barbara B. Oberg, Ellen R. Cohn, and others, New Haven, 1959– . description ends , 39:215; 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 , 10:239, 15:index).

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    Adams Papers
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    From John Quincy Adams to John Adams, 17 April 1796
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    Adams, John Quincy
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    Adams, John
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    17 April 1796

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    “From John Quincy Adams to John Adams, 17 April 1796,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-21-02-0335. [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. 472.]

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