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. The waters of Bath would benefit his ailment, Adams was advised, and so on October 20, 1783, he and John Quincy set out for London and Bath. Before embarking from Calais they put up at the Hôtel d'Angleterre operated by Pierre Dessin, a fellow whom Laurence Sterne had made famous as a character in A Sentimental Journey. Adams arrived on January 12 at the Hotel des Etats-Unis at The Hague, but he did not tarry there. He rushed on to Amsterdam where, much beyond his own expectations, he obtained a loan adequate to save the credit of the United States.
