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MEMOIR, CORRESPONDENCE, AND MISCELLANIES, FROM THE PAPERS OF THOMAS
JEFFERSON.

Edited by Thomas Jefferson Randolph.


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VOLUME TWO




LETTER I.--TO RICHARD HENRY LEE, April 22, 1786


TO RICHARD HENRY LEE.

London, April 22, 1786.

Dear Sir,

In your letter of October the 29th, you desired me to send you one of
the new lamps. I tried at every probable place in Paris, and could not