“The offer you make of Sending me Copies Sealed and authenticated of all the Papers in your Hands” is very satisfactory; and as you Say they are but few, I suppose it may Soon be done. I imagined when I desired you to Send me the Originals, that they were a great Many, and at present of no Importance to you; and therefore not worth copying. I assure you I had not the least intention of depriving you of anything you might think necessary for your Vindication. The suspicion is groundless and Injurious. In a former Letter, I offer’d you authenticated Copies of any remaining in my hands that you Should judge might be of Such Use to you; and I now offer you the Originals if you had rather have them, and will content my Self with keeping Copies.

Mr. Adams did not as you insinuate exact any Promise of me to arrange and keep in Order, the Papers he Sent me. He knew Such a Promise unnecessary, for that I had always kept in order and by themselves the public Papers that were in my hands; without having them so “confunded among a multitude of other Papers” that they could not be found when called for.

I have the honour to be with great Respect Sir, &c.