Letter to Jared Sparks, Esq

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Excerpt from Letter to Jared Sparks, Esq.: Being a Rejoinder to His "Reply to the Strictures of Lord Mahon and Others, on the Mode of Editing the Writings of Washington"Surely, though you may not see this in your own case, a gentleman of much less than your sagacity would quickly discern it in another's. - As I look up from writing, my eyes fall on a chest before me containing two folio volumes'in the original ms., which have been confided to me, they are the narrative by liehtenant-general Sir Henry Clinton of his North American campaigns. Now, supposing for a moment that this ms. Con tained (which it does not) strong allegations in some places against the American insurgents, and in other places strong~admissions in their favour. What would be thought of me, I ask, were I to publish this ms., retaining all the passages of the first kind, and omitting all the passages of the latter? Would you not then retort upon me, and. With the fullest right, the phrase which I had ventured to apply to you, and say, that I had been tampering with the truth of History?About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.