General Correspondence and Other Papers of the Adams Statesmen: Papers of John Adams, Volumes 9 and 10: March 1780–December 1780 (Adams Papers)

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On the last day of December 1780 John Adams wrote that he had just spent “the most anxious and mortifying Year of my whole Life.” He had resided first at Paris, then at Amsterdam, making an attempt, without success, to open Anglo-American peace negotiations and to raise a Dutch loan. In volumes 9 and 10 of the Papers of John Adams, over 600 letters and documents that Adams sent to and received from a large number of correspondents in Europe and The united states provide an unparalleled view of Adams’ diplomacy and a wealth of detail at the world in which he lived.

These volumes chronicle Adams’ efforts to convince the British people and their leaders that Britain’s economic survival demanded a direct peace; his “snarling growling” debate with the French foreign minister, the Comte de Vergennes, over the correct Franco-American relationship; and his struggle to obtain a loan in the Netherlands, where policies were dictated by Mammon moderately than republican virtue. Adams’ writings, diplomatic dispatches, and personal correspondence all shed light on the scope of his intelligence gathering and his propaganda efforts in the British, French, and Dutch press. The letters reflect his interest in Bordeaux wines, the fate of Massachusetts’ Constitution that he had drafted in 1779, and political developments in Philadelphia, Boston, London, and St. Petersburg. The volumes leave definitely as to John Adams’ unwavering commitment to the American cause. Even in this most difficult year, he believed the revolution in The united states to be “the greatest that ever took Place among Men.” He felt honored to serve a new nation where “the Wisdom and not the Man is attended to,” whose citizens were fighting a “People’s War” from which the USA would inevitably emerge victorious to take its rightful place at the world stage.

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