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To John Adams from William Maclay, 1 September 1789

From William Maclay

Sepr. 1st 1789

Mr Maclay’s Compliments wait on the Vice President of the united States, begs leave to inform him, That he is in so ill a State of Health, That he cannot have the honor of dining, with him on Friday next—1

RC (MHi:Adams-Hull Coll.); addressed: “Honble Vice President of the / United States—”; docketed by JA: “Card / 1789.”

1. Suffering from ill health, William Maclay of Pennsylvania requested a leave of absence from the Senate from 20 July to 17 Aug. and again from 2 to 20 Sept. (First Fed. Cong. description begins Documentary History of the First Federal Congress of the United States of America, March 4, 1789 – March 3, 1791, ed. Linda Grant De Pauw, Charlene Bangs Bickford, Helen E. Veit, William C. diGiacomantonio, and Kenneth R. Bowling, Baltimore, 1972–2017; 22 vols. description ends , 14:763).

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    To John Adams from William Maclay, 1 September 1789
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    “To John Adams from William Maclay, 1 September 1789,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-20-02-0093. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Papers of John Adams, vol. 20, June 1789–February 1791, ed. Sara Georgini, Sara Martin, R. M. Barlow, Gwen Fries, Amanda M. Norton, Neal E. Millikan, and Hobson Woodward. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020, p. 146.]