From John Adams to John Binns

8 September 1819

Sir	Quincy September 8th. 1819

I have received your obliging letter of September 2d. but have not received the Declaration of Independence. it has been lost, or at least retarded in the Post Office—whenever it arrives I will indeavour to send you such remarks as may occour to me.— I have no pretensions to any Critical taste, in any such elaborate and elegant Efforts of the fine Arts.—

I am Sir, with much Respect for your exertions to Celebrate the Independence of this Country, and with thanks for your Civility to me—Your friend and humble Servant.

John Adams—

MHi: Adams Family Papers, Letterbooks.

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