Re: Another Subjective View

[SteveFJong -at- aol -dot- com]

Bruce, I have scanned the Web for that anecdote, and found it described 
without a moral by Thomas Jefferson as you recount it, but with a moral by 
Clifton Fadiman, quoted below. I can only plead that I must have read 
Fadiman's version, and point out that "John Thompson" and a picture of a hat 
is a much better sign than the ridiculous "John Thompson, Hatter, makes and 
sells hats for ready money" and a picture of a hat 8^)

"Franklin's story mollified Jefferson, and it was generally agreed that the 
committee's editorial work had improved the wording of the Declaration of 
Independence." --The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes, Clifton Fadiman, 
General Editor (Boston: Little, Brown and Company 1985).

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