Adding to his frustration was the fact that very few official papers had made their way to him at Mount Vernon. Washington was a stickler for orderly files that he could search at a moment's notice. This was the most important way he kept himself informed about the hundreds of things happening in the fledgling nation. Unfortunately, when the government clerks had panicked and dashed from Philadelphia, they had abandoned all papers and records in boarded-up houses. Which line from the passage can be defined as the cause?

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5 November, 23:38

Adding to his frustration was the fact that very few official papers had made their way to him at Mount Vernon. Washington was a stickler for orderly files that he could search at a moment's notice. This was the most important way he kept himself informed about the hundreds of things happening in the fledgling nation. Unfortunately, when the government clerks had panicked and dashed from Philadelphia, they had abandoned all papers and records in boarded-up houses. Which line from the passage can be defined as the cause?

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The first line of the passage clearly defines the source of Washington's frustration: few official papers had reached him at Mount Vernon.

The following sentences provide more information about why that would bother him (he was a stickler for having files in his reach) and about what caused the lack of papers (clerks had abandoned them in their panic). The first line, however, provides the clearest cause of the problem at hand.