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1From John Adams to Sylvanus Bourne, 30 August 1789 (Adams Papers)
I have received your letter of the 18 th of this month and have communicated that to the President, which was inclosed in it. The particular office you sollicit by that letter, will be sought by numbers: and among them probably will be men advanced in life, incumbered with large families, in necessitous circumstances, perhaps occasioned by public services, by depreciated public promises & &—...