Yankees at the Court: The First Americans in ParisThe author discusses the experiences of the first American diplomats in the court of Versailles during the years 1775-85. This book includes Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and John Jay. |
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... Correspondence prepared to send Adams ' friend Silas Deane across the Atlantic . Events were to bring them even closer . Adams was not on the committee . Some thought that he would rather they had asked him to join it than Robert Morris ...
... Correspondence prepared to send Adams ' friend Silas Deane across the Atlantic . Events were to bring them even closer . Adams was not on the committee . Some thought that he would rather they had asked him to join it than Robert Morris ...
Page 155
... correspondence began in Oc- tober with Deane writing six letters to one of Jay's.15 At first Deane's letters were cheerful , chatty , and full of news that he thought might have reached Paris before Madrid and so would interest Jay and ...
... correspondence began in Oc- tober with Deane writing six letters to one of Jay's.15 At first Deane's letters were cheerful , chatty , and full of news that he thought might have reached Paris before Madrid and so would interest Jay and ...
Page 296
... Correspondence , P. II . PP . 406 ff . 10. Ibid . , P. 12 . 15. Ibid . II . Ibid . 16. Vigée - Lebrun , Souvenirs de Madame Vigée - Lebrun , pp . 67 ff . 17. Memoirs de Talleyrand , p . 12. Bemis , The Diplomacy of the American ...
... Correspondence , P. II . PP . 406 ff . 10. Ibid . , P. 12 . 15. Ibid . II . Ibid . 16. Vigée - Lebrun , Souvenirs de Madame Vigée - Lebrun , pp . 67 ff . 17. Memoirs de Talleyrand , p . 12. Bemis , The Diplomacy of the American ...
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