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      "chunk_data": "Sir,\n\nWith no ordinary feelings of satisfaction I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of April last, which together with the queries it enclosed, I had the pleasure of receiving by the hands of my friend Captain Heard. I now beg to be allowed, in the first place, to express my gratitude for your kind notice of a stranger like myself, residing in a remote country and, secondly, to return my sincere thanks for the most acceptable present of books with which you have favoured me.",
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      "chunk_data": "I should have answered your letter by the ship Bengal; but I regret to say, that my time and attention had been so much engrossed by constant controversies with polytheists both of the West and East, that I had only leisure to answer by that opportunity a short letter which I had the pleasure of receiving from Mr. Reed of Boston, and was obliged to defer a reply to your queries until the present occasion. For this apparent neglect I have to request your pardon.",
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      "chunk_data": "It is impossible for me to describe the happiness I feel at the idea that so great a body of a free, enlightened, and powerful people, like your countrymen, have engaged in purifying the religion from those absurd, idolatrous doctrines and practices, with which the Greeks, Romans, and Barbarian converts to Christianity have mingled it from time to time. Nothing can be more acceptable",
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