TO THE COUNT DE VERGENNES.
Paris, February 25th, 1780.
Sir,
I had last evening the honor of your Excellency's letter of yesterday's date, and shall conform myself to your advice.
I shall esteem myself highly honored by a presentation to the King and royal family, and shall wait your Excellency's directions concerning the time of it, and shall not think myself at liberty to make any publication of my powers to treat of peace, until it shall have been announced in the Gazette. After which, I shall transmit to your Excellency any paragraph, which may be thought proper to publish in the gazettes of Holland, and take your advice upon it, before it is sent. My other powers shall be concealed, according to your advice, and I shall have the honor to pay my respects to your Excellency very soon at Versailles.
I have the honor to be, &c.
JOHN ADAMS.