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- GLC#
- GLC08060
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 24 August 1791
- Author/Creator
- Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
- Title
- To: John Sinclair.
- Place Written
- s.l.
- Pagination
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- The Early Republic
Praising French Revolution: "It would be unfortunate were it in the power of one man [the king] to defeat the issue of so beautiful a revolution. I hope... that for the good of suffering humanity all over the earth, that revolution will be established and spread thro' the whole world."
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