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1. The omission from the Journal of the text of the congratulatory letter to Washington was surely a dereliction on Thomson's part, and the sole case among many cited by JA that appears indefensible (see p. 365, above, and note 2 4 there). But oversight is far more likely to have been the cause of this lapse than the insidious motive assigned by JA.