From George Washington to Edmund Randolph, 19 June 1794
To Edmund Randolph
Baltimore June 19th 1794
Sir,
At five oclock this afternoon I reached this place, and shall proceed on in the morning.
Mr Adams’ Commission, as Minister Resident to the United Netherlands, was signed, if I recollect rightly, before I left Philadelphia. If his letters of Credence are forwarded to me by the Post, they also shall be signed & returned to you; to supersede the necessity of his waiting for them in case every thing else should be in readiness, before I return.1
As his duties at the Hague, will be few, & simple; chiefly of a pecuniary sort; there will be no necessity for detaining him to obtain my approbation of his instructions but I would have the Secretary of the Treasury consulted thereon.
ADf, DNA: RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB, DNA: RG 59, GW’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State.
1. GW signed the commission for John Quincy Adams as minister to the United Netherlands on 13 June ( , 309). Adams did not leave on the mission until July, and his letters of credence are dated 15 July.