"At pp. 9796-9796 1/2: Copy...Replying to a ltr. of the 2d, and promising to give Samuel Adams's ltr. and that of Capt. Nathaniel Byfield Lyde, to the Secy. of the Treasury, the logical recipient for such an application as to Lyde's. The John Adams family. Rhetorical questions about what the world was coming to."
(Adams Papers Office files, Box 5, Order 15 of NP Search) --SEG 2/17/2010