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On the newspaper publication of this letter in 1800 and the resulting controversy, see Thomas Pinckney to Freneau and Paine, 15 Sept. 1800, and Thomas Pinckney to JA, 16 Sept. 1800 (both in Ac/DLC:Pinckney Family Papers). Also a long article in Phila. Aurora, 3 Oct. 1800, "Adams and Pinckney," in same collection, accessioned under date of May 1792.