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To John Adams from Edward Augustus Holyoke, 27 October 1786

From Edward Augustus Holyoke

Salem Octr. 27th. 1786.

Sir.

I have the Honour to inclose Your Excellency a Vote of the Massachusetts medical Society; by which You will percieve the grateful Sense they entertain of your Excellencys. Favours: and, in Compliance with their agreable Injunction, to return You the Thanks of the Society, for the fresh Instance of your Excellencys. Attention to their Interests, in forwarding the Extract from the Register of the Royal Academy of Surgery at Paris.1

Permit the Society Sir, still to hope for the Continuance of your Excellencys. good Offices, and Me the Honour to subscribe myself, with all possible Respect, / Your Excellencys. most obedient / & very humble Servant

E. A. Holyoke

ENCLOSURE

At a Meeting of the Massachusetts Medical Society—in Boston 18h October 1786

Voted That the President return the Thanks of this Society to His Excelly: John Adams Esqr. for his kind attention to their interest, in forwardg. the Extract from the Register of the Royal Academy of Surgery at Paris, passed in March 1783—

A true Copy from the Records
Attest
N. W. Appleton
Recg Secry.

RC and enclosure (Adams Papers description begins Manuscripts and other materials, 1639–1889, in the Adams Manuscript Trust collection given to the Massachusetts Historical Society in 1956 and enlarged by a few additions of family papers since then. Citations in the present edition are simply by date of the original document if the original is in the main chronological series of the Papers and therefore readily found in the microfilm edition of the Adams Papers (APM). description ends ); internal address: “His Excy / John Adams Esqr.”

1. See JA’s letters to Holyoke of 3 April and 26 June, both above.

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    “To John Adams from Edward Augustus Holyoke, 27 October 1786,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-18-02-0258. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Papers of John Adams, vol. 18, December 1785–January 1787, ed. Gregg L. Lint, Sara Martin, C. James Taylor, Sara Georgini, Hobson Woodward, Sara B. Sikes, Amanda M. Norton. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016, pp. 492–493.]

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