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Papers of John Adams, Volume 18 (Hardcover)
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Papers of John Adams, Volume 18 (Hardcover)
Series: General Correspondence and Other Papers of the Adams Statesmen
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Volume 18 is the final volume of the Papers of John Adams wholly
devoted to Adams' diplomatic career. It chronicles fourteen months
of his tenure as minister to Great Britain and his joint
commission, with Thomas Jefferson, to negotiate treaties with
Europe and North Africa. With respect to Britain, Adams found it
impossible to do "any Thing Satisfactory, with this Nation," and
the volume ends with his decision to resign his posts. His
diplomatic efforts, Adams thought, were too much akin to "making
brick without straw." John Adams' ministerial efforts in London
were disappointing, but other aspects of his life were not. He and
Jefferson failed to finalize treaties with Portugal and Great
Britain, but they did, through agent Thomas Barclay, conclude a
treaty with Morocco. Barclay's letters are the earliest and most
evocative American accounts of that region. Adams witnessed the
marriage of his daughter, Abigail 2d, to William Stephens Smith,
promoted the ordination of American Episcopal bishops, and toured
the English countryside, first with Thomas Jefferson and then with
his family. Most significant perhaps was the publication of the
first volume of Adams' Defence of the Constitutions of Government
of the United States of America. This work is often attributed to
concern over Shays' Rebellion, of which Adams knew little when he
began drafting. In fact, it was Adams' summer 1786 visit to the
Netherlands that provoked his work. There, Dutch Patriot friends,
involved in their own revolution, expressed interest in seeing
"upon paper" his remarks "respecting Government."
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