John Adams to William Stephens Smith

I have recd. your Favours from Harwich, Amsterdam and Berlin, and congratulate you on your Reception by the King of Prussia.

I Shall have much occasion for your Assistance but still I would would not advise you, to leave Paris without Spending a Week or Ten Days there and being presented by Mrr Jefferson to the King, provided there is a Court day at Versailles.

I have been much pressed with Business since you left me, but by the Help of Mr Storer and Coll Franks I have got through. the former is now embarked if not Sailed for New York and I have no Assistance whatever

with great Esteem your Friend & / sert