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4626. LETTERS, Answering.—

Instead
of writing ten or twelve letters a day, which I
have been in the habit of doing as a thing in
course, I put off answering my letters now
farmer-like, till a rainy day, and then find
them sometimes postponed by other necessary
occupations.—
To John Adams. Washington ed. iv, 103. Ford ed., vi, 505.
(M. April. 1794)