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6659. PHILADELPHIA, Injuries by war.—

I sincerely congratulate you on the recovery
of Philadelphia and wish it may be found uninjured by the enemy. How far the


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interests of literature may have suffered by the
injury, or removal of the Orrery (as it is miscalled ),
the public libraries, your papers and
implements, are doubts which still excite anxiety.—
To David Rittenhouse. Washington ed. i, 210. Ford ed., ii, 162.
(M. July. 1778)