From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, [22 February 1793]
To George Washington
[22 Feb. 1793]
Th: Jefferson with his respects to the President, incloses him a letter he received from Mr. Short yesterday, by which he expected to leave the Hague on the 12th. of December: also the answers he has prepared to the two petitions from Post Vincennes.
RC (DNA: RG 59, MLR); undated; addressed: “The President of the US.”; endorsed by Tobias Lear as a letter of 22 Feb. 1793. Tr (Lb in same, SDC). Not recorded in SJL. Enclosures: (1) William Short to TJ, 8 Dec. 1792. (2) TJ to Pierre Billet, 21 Feb. 1793. (3) TJ to Paul Gamelin, 21 Feb. 1793.
Washington approved the answers … to the two petitions from post vincennes and returned them to TJ this day ( , 62).