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1800. COPYING PRESS, Appreciated.—

Have you a copying press? If you have not,
you should get one. Mine (exclusive of paper,
which costs a guinea a ream) has cost me about
fourteen guineas. I would give ten times that
sum to have had it from the date of the Stamp
Act.—
To James Madison. Washington ed. i, 415.
(P. 1785)