1From John Adams to Nathaniel Hazard, 10 March 1792 (Adams Papers)
Your obliging favor of the 29th. of January would not have remained so long unanswered had not sickness in my family of a long continuance and distressing nature interrupted my inclination to acknowledge my obligations to you. The “Anticipation” which you observe to have retarded an “heavy attack”, I do not fully understand. Such is the constitution of the human mind, that nations and other...