The Correspondence of Thomas Jefferson

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DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE / CONTRIBUTIONS TO

Your statements of the corrections of the Declaration of Independence by Dr. Franklin and Mr. Adams are neither of them at all exact. I should think it better to say generally that the rough draft Was communicated to those two gentlemen, who each of them made two or three short and verbal alterations only, but even this is laying more stress on mere composition than it merits, for that alone was mine. The sentiments were of all America.

to Joseph Delaplaine, 12 April 1817