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Rough draft of the Declaration of Independence
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The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1. General Correspondence. 1651–1827. From American Memory at the Library of Congress.
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The first page of a rough draft of the Declaration of Independence written in the hand of Thomas Jefferson in June of 1776. There are many phrases scratched out with a solid black line with corrections written above.
