1From John Adams to Benjamin Waterhouse, 24 February 1791 (Adams Papers)
It was not, till yesterday that I received your kind Letter, with your Discourse on Animation; for both of which obliging favours I pray you to accept of my best Thanks. My incessant Drudgery for three and thirty Years in the dull fields and forests of Law and Politicks, has rendered it impossible for me to Spare much of my time, in disquisitions of natural Knowledge. Whenever any Thing of the...