Adams Papers

From Andrew Kippis to John Adams, 10 March 1795

From Andrew Kippis

Westminster. March. 10. 1795.

Dear Sr.

I scarcely know whether the Honour and Favour of your friendly Regards, which You allowed me when You were in England, will justify the Liberty I now take; but I can not help so far rejoicing, as it gives me an Opportunity of testifying my high Esteem and Respect. The Bearer, Mr Millar, is the Son of Professor Millar of Glasgow, so well known by his excellent “Historical View of the English Government.”

Mr Millar Junior has for some Time practised as an Advocate at Edinburgh, and with great promise of Ability and Success. But having appeared as a Pleader in […] Cause of Liberty, He has been persecuted in […] a Manner as hath induced Him to quit h[is] native Country.1 He goes over to America with every Thing to recommend Him in Point of personal Character and literary Talents. He is excellently qualified for the Department of Education. If You should condescend to give Him any Advice with Respect to what may be proper in his Pursuits, I shall esteem it a peculiar Obligation. In the midst of the Desolations of Europe, I rejoice in the Prosperity of America, and in the Wisdom and Moderation of its two chief Governors.

With sincere Respects to every Part of your Family, I have the Honour to be, / dear Sr, / your most obliged / and obedient Servant,

And: Kippis.

RC (Adams Papers); addressed: “To / The Honble John Adams Esq; / Vice President / of the / American Congress.”; endorsed: “Dr Kippis. March 10 / ansd June 14th. 1795.” Some loss of text where the seal was removed.

1. Scottish law professor John Millar (1735–1801) taught at the University of Glasgow and wrote An Historical View of the English Government, from the Settlement of the Saxons in Britain to the Accession of the House of Stewart, London, 1787. His son John Craig (1760–1796), an Edinburgh lawyer, immigrated to Philadelphia (DNB description begins Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee, eds., The Dictionary of National Biography, New York and London, 1885–1901; repr. Oxford, 1959–1960; 21 vols. plus supplements; rev. edn., www.oxforddnb.com. description ends ; Jefferson, Papers description begins The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Julian P. Boyd, Charles T. Cullen, John Catanzariti, Barbara B. Oberg, James P. McClure, and others, Princeton, N.J., 1950– . description ends , 28:285, 407).

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    From Andrew Kippis to John Adams, 10 March 1795
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    “From Andrew Kippis to John Adams, 10 March 1795,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-21-02-0282. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Papers of John Adams, vol. 21, March 1791–January 1797, ed. Sara Georgini, Sara Martin, R. M. Barlow, Gwen Fries, Amanda M. Norton, and Hobson Woodward. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022, pp. 385–386.]