You need good time, you know, there are two kinds of leak: positive and negative leak, is stupid, they use silence, negation, board face, closed in this way, the loan real price is incompetent!
If people put you down (and not in a good-natured, joking way), then let them know that their opinion of you is not held by everyone—most of all yourself.
The importance of Johnson's letter is not so much historical as emotional; it would become a touchstone for all who repudiated patrons and for all who embraced the laws of the marketplace.