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4630. LETTERS, Sanctity of.—

I should
wish never to put pen to paper; and the more


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because of the treacherous practice some people
have of publishing one's letters without leave.
Lord Mansfield declared it a breach of trust,
and punishable at law. I think it should be a
penitentiary felony.—
To John Adams. Washington ed. vii, 244. Ford ed., x, 216.
(M. 1822)