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6382. PAPERS, Confidential.—[continued].

You are certainly free to
make use of any of the papers we put into Mr.
Hay's hands, with a single reservation: to wit,
some of them are expressed to be confidential,
and others are of that kind which I always
consider as confidential, conveying censure on
particular individuals, and therefore never communicate
them beyond the immediate executive
circle.—
To General Wilkinson. Washington ed. v, 198. Ford ed., ix, 141.
(M. 1807)