Adams Papers Digital Edition

Papers of John Adams, volume 6

Edmé Jacques Genet to John Adams: A Translation

John Paul Jones to the Commissioners
To Edmé Jacques Genet, 14 August 1778 JA Genet, Edmé Jacques To Edmé Jacques Genet, 14 August 1778 Adams, John Genet, Edmé Jacques
To Edmé Jacques Genet
post 14 August 1778

I Have the Honour of yours of the 14.

By the Imitation you inclose, I have no dout that the Name of the Writer of the Letter you mention is John Ross.1 Such a Person there is at Nantes a Merchant who has been concerned in American Trade, who often corresponds with the Commissioners here by which means I am in Possession of many of his Letters and am become well acquainted with his Signature.

I shall take a great Pleasure in forwarding to you the Intelligence from America, as soon as it arrives; God grant it may be as prosperous, as the other Events of the present Campaign. I am, sir with great Respect, your most obedient servant

John Adams 372

RC (Justin G. Turner, Los Angeles, 1958). Fire damage destroyed several words at the top of the first page.

1.

“John Ross” is written in much larger script than the rest of the letter.