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4454. LANGUAGE (Spanish), Important to know.—

Our future connection with
Spain renders that the most necessary of the
modern languages, after the French. When
you become a public man, you may have occasion
for it, and the circumstance of your
possessing that language, may give you a preference
over other candidates. [287]
To Peter Carr. Washington ed. i, 399.
(P. 1785)

 
[287]

Peter Carr was Jefferson's nephew.—Editor.