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However, his petition was undermined due to a confiscated letter of John Adams.

John Adams wrote a letter to a friend expressing his discontent with the Olive Branch Petition.

He wrote war was inevitable and he thought the Colonies should have already raised a navy and captured British officials.

This confiscated letter arrived in Great Britain at about the same time as the Olive Branch petition.

The British used Adams ' letter to claim that the Olive Branch Petition was insincere.