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- GLC#
- GLC06931
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 1783/06/26
- Author/Creator
- Adams, John, 1735-1826
- Title
- to Charles Dumas re: attempts at patience during Treaty of Paris negotiations
- Place Written
- Paris, France
- Pagination
- 2 p. : Height: 19 cm, Width: 15.1 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- Creating a New Government
"There is a species of witchcraft [that] governs in England that keeps them from knowing their own minds- and a similar malignant spirit reigns in America and prevents us from getting any intelligence from there... It is now 6 months that I have been waiting in expectation that the next week would bring me something certain." Damaged with losses affecting text at bottom edge and right margin of pages 1 and 2.
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