BTW: If anyone IS inclined to follow up on Brent's lead, the pertinent
letters and diaries are now accessible online at the Library of Congress's
American Memory site - along with the entire 26-vol set of Letters of
Delegates 1774-89 and other diarists' comments about the Continental and
Confederation Congresses.  I was using them yesterday to locate Adams's
description of Patrick Henry's contributions to the 1774 congress.

Jon Kukla

> If I had enough time, which unfortunately I don't, I would go search
> through the diaries and letters of John Adams, who wrote little
> thumb-nail sketches of the men he met while he was serving in the
> Continental Congress. About one of them (I think I recall that it was
> Thomas Nelson) Adams noted that he spoke very fast, like all the
> Virginians.
>
> So much for hot, lazy, ignorant Southerners and their drawls.
>
> Brent Tarter
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