Reply to the Structures of Lord Mahon and Others: On the Mode of Editing the Writings of Washington (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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But the heaviest charge is that of.making addi tions. This charge is entirely without foundation. Knowing that not a single line, or fragment of a line, was intentionally added to the original text, throughout the Whole twelve volumes of the work; I confess it was with no little surprise that I saw a passage quoted from a letter to Joseph Reed, as printed in Washington's Writings, and-declared by the writer in the Evening Post to be an invention of my own, the same not being found in What was supposed to be an exact copy of the original, printed in the Life and Correspondence of Joseph Reed. The following is the quotation.

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