John Adams reached Paris on October 26, 1782, for the final act of
the American Revolution: the peace treaty. This volume chronicles
his role in the negotiations and the decision to conclude a peace
separate from France. Determined that the United States pursue an
independent foreign policy, Adams's letters criticized Congress's
naive confidence in France. But in April 1783, frustrated at delays
over the final treaty and at real and imagined slights from
Congress and Benjamin Franklin, Adams believed the crux of the
problem was Franklin's moral bankruptcy and servile Francophilia in
the service of a duplicitous Comte de Vergennes.
Volume 14 covers more than just the peace negotiations. As
American minister to the Netherlands, Adams managed the
distribution of funds from the Dutch-American loan. Always an
astute observer, he commented on the fall of the Shelburne ministry
and its replacement by the Fox-North coalition, the future of the
Anglo-American relationship, and the prospects for the United
States in the post-revolutionary world. But he was also an anxious
father, craving news of John Quincy Adams's slow journey from St.
Petersburg to The Hague. By May 1783, Adams was tired of Europe,
but resigned to remaining until his work was done.
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