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An Autoethnography of Letter Writing and Relations Through Time: Finding Our Perfect Moon is about love letters, stories, and the ability of words to bring people together across time and physical space.

An Autoethnography of Letter Writing and Relations Through Time: Finding Our Perfect Moon is about love letters, stories, and the ability of words to bring people together across time and physical space.

This volume chronicles Adams's efforts, against great odds, to achieve formal recognition of the new United States. The documents include his vigorous response to criticism of his seemingly unorthodox methods by those who would have preferred that he pursue a different course, including Congress's newly appointed secretary for foreign affairs, Robert R. Livingston.

In mid-March 1781 John Adams received his commission and instructions as minister to the Netherlands and embarked on the boldest initiative of his diplomatic career. Disappointed by the lack of interest shown by Dutch investors in his efforts to raise a loan for the United States, Adams changed his tactics, and in a memorial made a forthright appeal to the States General of the Netherlands for immediate recognition of the United States. Publis...