In the argot of the Antebellum South, the term “epistle” was synonymous with “missive or letter.” Since history tells us that William Roan Forehand was, indeed, a product of the Antebellum South, I have elected to employ “this particular word” in my rhetoric.
An epistle on behalf of William Roan Forehand
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