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5920. NEWS, Minor.—[further continued] .

Nothing is so grateful
to me, at this distance [Paris], as details, both
great and small, of what is passing in my own
country. * * * When one has been long
absent from his neighborhood, the small news
of that is the most pleasing, and occupies his
first attention.—
To Archibald Stuart. Washington ed. i, 517. Ford ed., iv, 187.
(P. 1786)