Adams Papers

From Samuel Bayard Malcom to John Adams, 8 January 1797

From Samuel Bayard Malcom

Newyork Jany 8th 1797—

Sir

I have the honor to advise you of my arrival to this City on thursday last; the important news from Europe, furnished us on that day, by an arrival from France, you have e’re this received

The inclosed containing the speech of Governor Jay to our Legislature I have taken the Liberty to transmit for your perusal; from the choice of the Council of appointment, we are made happy in the overthrow, of intrugue and the blighting of democratic exertion—1

I am preparing to depart for philadelphia tomorrow—and with respects to your Lady, I have the honor to Remain / Your Obt. Servt:

Sam B Malcom

RC (Adams Papers); internal address: “The President of the United States.”

1. Samuel Bayard Malcom (1776–1815), Columbia 1794, formally stepped in as JA’s private secretary in mid-February, but from 18 Jan., LbC’s in JA’s Letterbook begin to appear in his hand. The enclosure, not found, was John Jay’s 1 Nov. 1796 address to the New York State legislature commenting on a wide swath of domestic and foreign affairs. Jay honored George Washington’s presidential service and asked citizens to deliberate in the upcoming federal election with the “utmost Care and Circumspection” (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 , 10:249, 11:508; Jay, Selected Papers description begins The Selected Papers of John Jay, ed. Elizabeth M. Nuxoll and others, Charlottesville, Va., 2010– . description ends , 6:503–507).

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    From Samuel Bayard Malcom to John Adams, 8 January 1797
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    Malcom, Samuel Bayard
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    Adams, John
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    8 January 1797

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    “From Samuel Bayard Malcom to John Adams, 8 January 1797,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-21-02-0368. [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. 529–530.]