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 > The Library of Virginia > [log in to unmask] > > Visit the Library of Virginia's Web site at http://www.lva.lib.va.us > > To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions > at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html > > Dr. Jon Kukla, Executive Vice-President Red Hill - The Patrick Henry National Memorial 1250 Red Hill Road Brookneal, Virginia 24528 www.redhill.org Phone 434-376-2044 or 800-514-7463 Fax 434-376-2647 - M. Lynn Davis, Office Manager - Karen Gorham, Associate Curator - Edith Poindexter, Curator To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html