1From John Adams to William Cushing, 14 September 1789 (Adams Papers)
I have not yet acknowledged my obligation to you for your favor of Aug t 22. if my hasty scrawls written in gloomy times and desperate circumstances, have furnished you an amusement for a vacant hour I am glad of it. My present office is as agreable to me as any public office ever can be: and my situation as pleasing as any on this earth, excepting Braintree. My compensation will be...