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Excerpt from Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States, Vol. 2
IN one of your former letters, you expressed a wish to have one of the newly invented lamps. I find them made here much better than at Paris, and take the liberty of asking our acceptance of one, which will accompany this letter. T is now found that any tolerable oil ma e used in them. The spermaceti oil is best, of the cheap Kinds.
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