Delays, indeed, have taken place, occasioned by the long illness and subsequent death of the British minister charged with that duty.
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
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