John Adams to John Quincy Adams, 1 August 1784
John Adams to John Quincy Adams
The Hague August 1. 1784
My dear son
I have the Pleasure of yours of July 30. and advise you to purchase the Coach and prepare every Thing to set off with me to Dover in a Week from this Day. I will not loose a Moment, of the agreable Company, that I can avoid. Indeed I have repented 20 times that I did not go with you. The Pas of Calais and the Pas of Harwich will make me sick, but do me no harm.
Your Father
RC (Adams Papers).
1. JA’s library has Samuel Johnson’s The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, London, 1783, in four volumes. Each volume has JA’s bookplate; vol. 3 has his autograph. .
2. JA wrote this sentence in the left margin.