VIII. Thomas Jefferson to the President of the Senate, 17 January 1791

VIII. Thomas Jefferson to the President of the Senate

Philadelphia. Jan. 17. 1791.

Sir

I have the honor to enclose you a Postscript to the Report on Measures, Weights and coins now before your house. This has been rendered necessary by a small arithmetical error detected in the estimate of the cubic foot proposed in that report. The head of Superficial measures is also therein somewhat more developed.

Nothing is known, since the last session of Congress of any further proceedings in Europe on this subject. I have the honour to be with sentiments of the most profound respect Sir Your most obedient & most humble servt,

Th: Jefferson

PrC (DLC); at foot of text: “The honourable the President of the Senate.” In DLC: TJ Papers, 59: 10234 there is also a PrC of a letter to “The Honble the Speaker of the house of Representatives” that varies in phraseology but is identical in substance with the foregoing.

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Title: VIII. Thomas Jefferson to the President of the Senate, 17 January 1791
Author: Jefferson, Thomas
Recipient: President of the Senate
Date: 17 January 1791

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Cite as: “VIII. Thomas Jefferson to the President of the Senate, 17 January 1791,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-16-02-0359-0010. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 16, 30 November 1789–4 July 1790, ed. Julian P. Boyd. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1961, p. 674.]

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