[2] "Three months after this (during the second quarter), the Selectmen procured lodgings for me at Dr. Nahum Willard's. This physician had a large practice, a good reputation for skill, and a pretty library. Here were Dr. Cheyne's works, Sydenham, and others, and Van Swieten's Commentaries on Boerhaave. I read a good deal in these books, and entertained many thoughts of becoming a physician and surgeon."--_The Works of JOHN ADAMS, edited by CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS_--Vol. II., p. 7. [3] The Works of John Adams--Vol. II., page 9. [4] The Works of John Adams--Vol. II., p. 145. [5] This picture is engraved in the "The Life and Works," Vol. II., Frontispiece. We are obliged to guess at the age when it was taken, since we find no hint concerning it--indeed no reference to the picture any where in the book. [6] "The American nettle-tree. One of these is still to be seen growing out of the top of the rock at this place."--_Ed. The Life and Works._ [7] "This is the mansion afterwards purchased by the writer, in which he lived from the date of his last return from Europe until his death in 1826.--_Ib._ [8] This tree still remains in fine condition on Milton Hill.--_Ed. The Life and Works._ [9] The Life and Works--Vol. II., p. 136-138. [10] The Life and Works--Vol. II., p. 255. =Patrick Henry.= [Illustration: Patrick Henry fac-simile of letter] [Illustration: Residence of Patrick Henry, Va.] PATRICK HENRY. There is no "Home of an American Statesman" that may more fitly claim the leading place in this our repository than the dwelling of Patrick Henry--the earliest, the most eloquent, and the wisest of those whose high counsels first swayed us as one people and drew us to a common cause; as resolutely as ably directed that cause to its noble event; and, in a word, performing in the civil struggle all that Washington executed in the military, achieved for us existence as a nation. In the Heroic Age, however, such as was to us the Revolution, men build not monuments nor engrave commemorative inscriptions: those of nature, identified by rude but reverential tradition, alone attest where the founders of a race, the great-fathers of an empire, have sprung.