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8. AA quotes, only slightly inaccurately, from Benjamin Franklin to the president of Congress, 9 Aug. 1780 (Wharton, ed., Dipl. Corr. Amer. Rev. , 4:21–25). For a full discussion of AA's first reaction to this letter, in the summer of 1781, see vol. 4:154 and notes 3 and 4, 162–192 passim.
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