ABSTRACT
As autumn came on in Paris, Adams suffered once again from a fever nearly as severe as the one that had struck him two years before in Amsterdam. His secretary, John Thaxter, had sailed for America with the definitive treaty; there was no one to offer him more homely comfort than his physician and a collection of French servants. In London, a postboy carried John and John Quincy to the fine Adelphi Hotel in the Strand, on the way pointing out to them John's Street, Adams' Street, and, finally, John Adams' Street. The Adamses were forced to pay dearly to be rowed in the water to the ice, where the skipper and his men leaped out, hauled the boat up onto the ice and skated the boat on its runners. Adams arrived on January 12 at the Hotel des Etats-Unis at The Hague, but he did not tarry there.
