1From John Adams to William Griffith, 15 April 1800 (Adams Papers)
I have received the letter, you did me the honor to write me on the 13th of this month, & I pray you to accept my thanks for the very acceptable present of your oration, before the citizens of Burlington on the 22d of February, in commemoration of Gen Washington. I have read the oration with pleasure & the prayer with satisfaction. I rejoice that Eumenes undertook the office of orator on that...