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<Author>Jefferson, Thomas</Author>
<Title>Notes on the State of Virginia</Title>
<Title>Public Papers</Title>
<Edition>[Selections. 1984] Writings. Library of America. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, 1984</Edition>
<Date>1781-1782</Date>
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<milestone n=124><p><i>ADVERTISEMENT</i>
<p>The following Notes were written in Virginia in the year
1781, and somewhat corrected and enlarged in the winter of
1782, in answer to Queries proposed to the Author, by a
Foreigner of Distinction, then residing among us. The
subjects are all treated imperfectly; some scarcely touched
on. To apologize for this by developing the circumstances
of the time and place of their composition, would be to open
wounds which have already bled enough. To these
circumstances some of their imperfections may with truth be
ascribed; the great mass to the want of information and want
of talents in the writer. He had a few cop . . .
