Note 239 — Chapter I · (continued 2)
Reading edition
A duplicate of the original document is in the Lee Papers in the University of Virginia library. Cf. Franklin's account of his conversation with Dartmouth, Works, viii. 25, 28; and of his presentation of the petition and one forwarded the next year (viii. 47). For duplicates of originals, see Calendar of Lee Papers, p. 5 (vol. ii. nos. 5-7).