1From John Adams to Joel Barlow, 4 April 1786 (Adams Papers)
I am much obliged to you for your favour of December 12 th. 1785, and for the oppertunity of reading the vision of Columbus a Poem of very great Merit— as soon as I had read it, I went out with it to my friend D r. Price at Newington Green, and left it with him, together with your Letter to him— The Doctor will do you every service in his Power & I will do what may be in mine. As the English...