220 The Life and Writings of 



13. If any body has thought himself wronged by me, I ask 

 their pardon. I never did any thing wrong willingly, but being 

 beset by knaves and Rivals may have been compelled to act some 

 times in a way not exactly as I should have chosen, had I been 

 fairly dealt with by others. 



14. I do not owe any thing of any account, have lately dealt 

 always in cash, there is no Bills against me, and any one presented 

 would be spurious. There may be some old claims against me by 

 my defunct brother Anthony, but it was unfounded as my Letters 

 to him prove, and if his son Jules brings it on, he will hereby be 

 unfit to be my publisher. Some old claims in Sicily and Newyork 

 by Pinistri & Roulet, if brought forward must be compromised & 

 much reduced, as my lawsuit with Pinistri evinces the shallowness 

 & injustice of this claim, & Roulet accts are also mostly wrong, 

 both besides are obsolete & out of law course. In justice they 

 ought to take as offsetts the similar claims for $10,000 I have on 

 Lafleche, Lanfiar, Blodget, Cramer & Spear, Thomas Smith, Trampylo 

 Univry* & Botanic Garden &c, or at least accept my works in 

 paymt of any real compromise balance. 



C. S. RAFINESQUE my own will) 



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15. I direct my Executors to withdraw, claim & publish my 

 memoir on Materials for hist of America sent in 1825 to the Academy 

 of Sciences of Boston for a premium of $100, both of which have 

 been withheld & stolen from me, as the Letters of Mr. Everett 

 proves. Also my memoir on a Peaceful Congress of Nations sent 

 in 1831 to the Peace Society of Newyork for the premium of $500 

 offered & not yet awarded, if it is not the successful one and 

 publish it with my other posthumous works. 



* Transylvania University is evidently intended here. From this item 

 it may be inferred that Rafinesque claimed an unpaid salary balance. 



