![]() ![]() These were not just any dogs, but seven hounds bred in Normandy by the Marquis de Lafayette and sent as a special gift to George Washington. If you see the Marquis, you will inform him, that his Dogs are on board, and shall be well kept, if my attention to them has any effect.” 1 While this remark, which concluded a brief letter to his father, John Adams, detailing his seventeen-year-old son’s final preparations before setting sail, might have felt casual to the young traveler, it was anything but usual. Jefferson … and all our friends in Paris. S HORTLY BEFORE BOARDING a ship in May 1785 that would take him back to America for the first time in seven years, John Quincy Adams asked his father “please to present my best respects to Mr. ![]()
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