1From John Adams to John Lowell, 14 September 1789 (Adams Papers)
I received your Letter of the 7 th in due Season and have delayed my Answer, in hopes it might be more determinate. I have received also Letters from Governor Bowdoin and M r Higginson on the Same Subject. The Contents of these Letters appeared to me of Such Importance, that I thought it my Duty to lay them before the President, as [in]formation that he ought to be possessed of;—Since which I...