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Thomas Jefferson: “Delays, indeed, have taken place, occasioned by the long illness and subsequent death of the British minister charged…”

On the recordDecember 2, 1806
Delays, indeed, have taken place, occasioned by the long illness and subsequent death of the British minister charged with that duty.
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Thomas Jefferson
Democratic Republican · Virginia

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