- unitid
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{"value"=>"280065", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"EM. 20156", "type"=>"local_emmet"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"Dec. 13, 1784", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1784-12-13"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Letter to [Horatio] Gates [Traveller's Rest, Berkeley Co., Va.]"}
- physdesc
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{"value"=>"A. L. S. 2 pp. 4o", "format"=>"simple"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Has received Gates' letter from New York; is contemplating a young man who has been taught to regard his subjects as his cattle; as to his pretensions in reference to the navigation of the Scheldt; the Dutch ready to place their existence on the stake contended for; spring with its genial happiness to others will probably open the sluices of calamity on this side of the Atlantic; France, Holland, Prussia and Turkey against the two empires he thinks will be an overmatch; England would be neuter from interest and impotence; the disposition of her inhabitants very unfriendly to America; Emperor of Morocco has just taken a Virginian vessel; he has five frigates cruising in the Atlantic; the Portuguese, Spanish and Mediterranean trade is annihilated unless we do something decisive; tribute or war the alternative of these pirates; why not begin a navy and decide on war; no better cause nor weaker foe; the Earl of Shelburne was made Marquis of Lansdowne, and Lord Temple, Marquis of Buckingham."}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 (Paris)", "type"=>"persname", "role"=>"Author"}
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1784
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1784
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1784-12-13
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1784-12-13
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1784-12-13