ALS, 1798 [May 29?] : Paris, to Elbridge Gerry.

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ALS, 1798 [May 29?] : Paris, to Elbridge Gerry.

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"Whether it was prudent in John Adams to make the information it contains public is a matter I leave to your own Judgment; or whether it was prudent in the Commissioners to hold conference with unauthorized persons in which the Character of the Directory is implicated I also leave you to Judge of. The persons who employed themselves in this business are concealed under the Cyphers W.X.Y.X. but they ought to be known in order that the suspicion may not fall on other persons."

1 p. ; 23 x 15 cm.

Copley Press, J S Copley Library

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Copley Press, J S Copley Library

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