To John Adams from Hannah Adams

27 August 1800

Sir,	Medfield August 27 1800.

Impressed with a sense of your condescension, I again presume to prefix your name to this work, with an ardent wish, that the present additions may render it more worthy your approbation—

Secluded in the shades of retirement, I was sensible of the important services you had rendered your country, and highly venerated and admired your character, I now feel peculiarly grateful for having been admitted to the honor of a personal acquaintance, which has given me a striking view of the union of intellectual and moral excellence, placed in a station where genius and virtue are eminently conspicuous.

May your important life be long preserved, a blessing to your country; and may a grateful people fully appreciate your virtues and talents, while you enjoy the sublime gratification of seeing your disinterested exertions crowned with success, in the increasing happiness and respectability of the American republic.

I am with profound respect / Sir, / Your much obliged / and very humble servant

Hannah Adams

MHi: Adams Papers.

This early access document derives from raw transcriptions, prior to editing and publication in Rotunda's American History Collection. If this document is cited in formal research, it should be noted that it is not a final version, and that the URL you used to access it is not permanent.
Please report any errors or problems you notice in documents.