ADAMS, John. Letter signed ("John Adams") to George A. Otis, Montezello, 3 August 1820. 2 pages, 4to, tape repairs to creases . ADAMS TAKES ISSUE WITH AN ITALIAN HISTORIAN'S VIEW OF THE REVOLUTION: "I DISCERN TOO MANY APOLOGIES FOR ENGLAND, AND TOO LITTLE SENSIBILITY TO THE WRONGS OF AMERICA" A feisty letter taking issue with Carlo Botta's account of the American Revolution, written to the English-language translator. While lauding Otis's translation, Adams has several bones to pick with Botta: "The work may have great merit, and yet under great professions of impartiality may give false colour to the whole picture, and I think I discern too many apologies for England, and too little sensibility to the wrongs of America, tho much complaisance to France and too manifest a disposition to bestow the laurels on the Southern States which ought to decorate the brows of the Northern. I will mention one instance which you may attribute if you please to my vanity. The speeches of Mr Richard Henry Lee and Mr John Dickinson upon the question of Independence, are gross impositions on mankind..." Otis was the first to prepare an English translation of the popular Italian account of the Revolution: Carlo G.G. Botta's Storia della guerra dell'independenza degli Stati Uniti (Paris, 1809), which he published at Philadelphia in 1820. Jefferson raved about it (see Jefferson's letter to Otis, lot 402), but a skeptical Adams promises to read the work in its entirety and keep an open mind--about Botta as well as Lee and Dickinson: "if my life is spared and strength remains to me I will read them, and then if I can in conscience, will retract all that I have said about them."
ADAMS, John. Letter signed ("John Adams") to George A. Otis, Montezello, 3 August 1820. 2 pages, 4to, tape repairs to creases . ADAMS TAKES ISSUE WITH AN ITALIAN HISTORIAN'S VIEW OF THE REVOLUTION: "I DISCERN TOO MANY APOLOGIES FOR ENGLAND, AND TOO LITTLE SENSIBILITY TO THE WRONGS OF AMERICA" A feisty letter taking issue with Carlo Botta's account of the American Revolution, written to the English-language translator. While lauding Otis's translation, Adams has several bones to pick with Botta: "The work may have great merit, and yet under great professions of impartiality may give false colour to the whole picture, and I think I discern too many apologies for England, and too little sensibility to the wrongs of America, tho much complaisance to France and too manifest a disposition to bestow the laurels on the Southern States which ought to decorate the brows of the Northern. I will mention one instance which you may attribute if you please to my vanity. The speeches of Mr Richard Henry Lee and Mr John Dickinson upon the question of Independence, are gross impositions on mankind..." Otis was the first to prepare an English translation of the popular Italian account of the Revolution: Carlo G.G. Botta's Storia della guerra dell'independenza degli Stati Uniti (Paris, 1809), which he published at Philadelphia in 1820. Jefferson raved about it (see Jefferson's letter to Otis, lot 402), but a skeptical Adams promises to read the work in its entirety and keep an open mind--about Botta as well as Lee and Dickinson: "if my life is spared and strength remains to me I will read them, and then if I can in conscience, will retract all that I have said about them."
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