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    <unitdate datechar="creation">1986</unitdate>
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<p>This annotated letter (draft) written to the Virginia Quarterly Review by Shabtai Rosenne concerns Thomas Jefferson's Parliamentary Manual and Israel's Declaration of Independence.</p>  </scopecontent>
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<p>This letter was donated to the Law School by Shabtai Rosenne in September of 1986.</p>  </acqinfo>
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<p>Shabtai Rosenne (1917-2010) was an Israeli diplomat and professor of international law.</p>  </bioghist>
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