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The rumour in its familiar form appeared in [[Pierre-Jean Grosley]]'s ''Londres'' (Neichatel, 1770), translated as ''A Tour to London'' 1772;<ref>Grosley, ''Londres'' (Neuchatel, 1770) and ''A Tour to London, or, New observations on England and its inhabitants, translated from the French by Thomas Nugent'' (London: Printed for Lockyer Davis) 1772; [http://www.faktoider.nu/sandwich.html Hexmasters Faktoider: Sandwich]: English quotes from Grosley 1772</ref> Grosley's impressions had been formed during a year in London, 1765. The sober alternative is provided by Sandwich's biographer, [[N. A. M. Rodger]], who suggests Sandwich's commitments to the navy, to politics and the arts mean the first sandwich was more likely to have been consumed at his desk.
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