[Administrative note on cover, written diagonally at top left: [undecipherable] by J.J. [undecipherable], June 16/92] [FREE] [Edward H. Robbins [undecipherable]] [Counsellor at Law] [Boston] [H. Knox] [1789] [copy] New York. 22^nd February 1789 Dear Sir, I thank you for your favor of the first instant, which I this day had the pleasure to receive. Your statement of the present situation of the preference is the only one I have received on the subject. Your plan appears to me to be highly judicious. Any [undecipherable] accommodation on our part, would be greatly injurious to the interests we represent. I will thank you & Mr Bickham to decide upon it in conjunction with the Mess^rs Winslows who are doubly interested in this matter to what I am. I shall always entertain a grateful sense for your exertions in this affair, besides being ready to make you the necessary pecuniary advances. Virginia whose antifederal dispositions were manifested by its late legislation, has on a fair appeal to the people, in the election of representation, exhibited a great change of opinion, six or seven out of ten representatives being avowedly federal, elected as such, and were opposed by Anti-federal candidates. The ten Electors also who met, gave every vote to Gen^l Washington, and five to Mr J. Adams — The other five votes for Vice President having been thrown away — Mr Adams has on the whole 33 votes which amply secures him the office of Vice President — I am Dear Sir With great respect Your most obedient humble Servant H Knox Edward H. Robbins Esq. } Counsellor at Law } [Copy of Original Letter.]