Adams Papers Digital Edition

Papers of John Adams, volume 11

To Francis Dana

To William Temple Franklin
To Arnold Henri Dohrman, 18 January 1781 JA Dohrman, Arnold Henri To Arnold Henri Dohrman, 18 January 1781 Adams, John Dohrman, Arnold Henri
To Arnold Henri Dohrman
Amsterdam Jan. 18. 1781 Sir

I have the Honour, to transmit you, a Letter from the Honourable the Committee of Congress for foreign Affairs, with a Resolution of Congress of the 21. of June last, appointing you Agent for the United States of America, in the Kingdom of Portugal, for the Transaction 57of Such Affairs of the Said States as may be committed to your Direction.1 As I am, by the Misfortune of Mr. Laurens, at present fixed in this Place, I shall be particularly happy in your Correspondence, and have the Honour to be, with great Consideration, sir your most obedient and most humble servant.

John Adams

RC (Private owner, 1961).

1.

JA quotes from the resolution enclosed in the Committee's letter to Dohrman of 11 July ( JCC , 17:541–542; Smith, ed., Letters of Delegates , 15:425–426). Although Francis Dana did not mention them in his letter of 10 Jan., calendared above, the two documents were probably among those he forwarded as enclosures.