Letter : Philadelphia, to J. Maddison, 1801 June 1 [manuscript].

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Letter : Philadelphia, to J. Maddison, 1801 June 1 [manuscript].

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Peters thanks Madison for copies of "Robinson's Cases and Strickland's Observations in American Agriculture," Comments on the difficulty the printer [James Humphreys] has had in selling the former, criticizes Strickland's work and that of other travelling European "birds of passage" including a "silly book by one Weld" and one by Liancourt that have done "much mischief." He notes that George Washington was often bothered by these traveller's inquiries.

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