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may create them. Sacrifice nothing of truth to embellishment. 

 Supply nothing beyond fact to flatter the ear or round a sentence. 

 In short, " nothing extenuate or set down aught" in romance ; that 

 what you write may be read a thousand years hence with the same 

 interest as in the current century, because of its fidelity to truth. 

 Let your ambition be to merit the inscription on your tomb, 

 should Neptune vouchsafe you one, " exegit monumentum are 

 perrennius." 



Believe me, very truly, 



Your friend, 



A. BEAUMONT. 

 /. N. REYNOLDS, Esq., 

 New-York. 



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