ADAMS, John (1736-1826), President . Twenty-Six Letters Upon Interesting Subjects, Respecting the Revolution in America....By His Excellency John Adams ...New York: Printed by John Fenno, at his Office, No. 9 Maiden Lane, 1789. 12mo, modern binding, half morocco, marbled boards stamped in gilt. Sabin 252, Evans 21625, Church 1233, Howes A66. RARE A later edition of this rarely seen epistolary history of the Revolution by John Adams addressed to a Dutch acquaintance, and composed between 4 October and 27 October 1780, during Adams's mission to Holland. The book is organized in the manner of Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia , with Dr. Calkoen posing queries on the War that Adams answers in each of his chapters. The first letter contains a fascinating, brief history of the Revolution, which Adams dates from the directives of the Board of Trade concerning Writs of Assistance in 1760. "From this moment," he writes, "every measure of the British Court and Parliament, and of the King's Governors and other servants, confirmed the people in an opinion of a settled design to overturn those constitutions under which their ancestors had emigrated from the old world, and with infinite toil, danger and expense, planted a new one." The second letter contains heated words about the depredations of British troops against Americans. In the fourth he says if the British ever tried a general occupation or a move into the interior, the British ranks would be thinned considerably by sickness and the sword, with "the miserable remains of them Burgoyned." A privately printed subscriber's edition was issued in London in 1786. This New York reprint was issued by John Fenno, publisher of the United States Gazette .
ADAMS, John (1736-1826), President . Twenty-Six Letters Upon Interesting Subjects, Respecting the Revolution in America....By His Excellency John Adams ...New York: Printed by John Fenno, at his Office, No. 9 Maiden Lane, 1789. 12mo, modern binding, half morocco, marbled boards stamped in gilt. Sabin 252, Evans 21625, Church 1233, Howes A66. RARE A later edition of this rarely seen epistolary history of the Revolution by John Adams addressed to a Dutch acquaintance, and composed between 4 October and 27 October 1780, during Adams's mission to Holland. The book is organized in the manner of Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia , with Dr. Calkoen posing queries on the War that Adams answers in each of his chapters. The first letter contains a fascinating, brief history of the Revolution, which Adams dates from the directives of the Board of Trade concerning Writs of Assistance in 1760. "From this moment," he writes, "every measure of the British Court and Parliament, and of the King's Governors and other servants, confirmed the people in an opinion of a settled design to overturn those constitutions under which their ancestors had emigrated from the old world, and with infinite toil, danger and expense, planted a new one." The second letter contains heated words about the depredations of British troops against Americans. In the fourth he says if the British ever tried a general occupation or a move into the interior, the British ranks would be thinned considerably by sickness and the sword, with "the miserable remains of them Burgoyned." A privately printed subscriber's edition was issued in London in 1786. This New York reprint was issued by John Fenno, publisher of the United States Gazette .
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