Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette to John Adams, January 9, 1778

Headquarters, 9 January 1778. RC (Adams Papers); printed : Lafayette in the Age of the American Revolution: Selected Letters and Papers, 1776–1790 , ed. Stanley J. Idzerda and others, Ithaca, N.Y., 1977– , 1:226–227. Lafayette enclosed letters to his wife and her cousin the Prince de Poix, whom he asked to introduce JA to friends.