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Thomas Jefferson: “I am in the habit of noting daily in the list kept for that purpose the letters I receive daily by the names of the…”

On the recordApril 7, 1808
I am in the habit of noting daily in the list kept for that purpose the letters I receive daily by the names of the writers, and dates of time, and place, and this has been done with such exactness that I do not recollect ever to have detected a single omission.
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Thomas Jefferson
Democratic Republican · Virginia

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