Adams Papers Digital Edition

Diary of John Quincy Adams, volume 1

22d. Saturday.

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23d. Sunday.

This afternoon I went and paid a visit to the Baron de la Houze1 the French Minister here; he offer'd to send any letter I should write to my Father with his Dispatches to Mr. De Vergennes.2

1.

Matthieu de Basquiat, Baron de la Houze, French minister plenipotentiary to Denmark, 1779–1792 ( Repertorium der diplomatischen Vertreter aller Länder , p. 112).

 2.

Charles Gravier, Comte de Vergennes, minister of foreign affairs during the American Revolution.