1From John Adams to C. W. F. Dumas, 5 September 1787 (Adams Papers)
I am very much concerned that an absence in the Country should have So long delayed My Answer to your Letter of the tenth of July. There is no Act of Congress which authorizes me expressly, to order the Payment of your Salary,: But the Representation in your Letter Supported by the Extract from that of M r Jefferson to you of the 14. of June last, Show Such an Absolute necessity of it that I...