Hugh Nelson to Thomas Jefferson, 22 February [1815]

From Hugh Nelson

City of Washington Feby 22

Hugh Nelson takes the liberty to enclose to Mr Jefferson, a copy of the treaty of Peace; and with pride and with pleasure to tender to him his congratulations on the return of this happy state of things—

RC (DLC: TJ Papers, 203:36159); dateline at foot of text; partially dated; endorsed by TJ as a letter of 22 Feb. 1815 received 1 Mar. 1815 and so recorded in SJL. Enclosure: copy of the Treaty of Ghent ending the War of 1812, signed 24 Dec. 1814 (Hunter Miller, ed., Treaties and other International Acts of the United States of America [1931–48], 2:574–84).

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Source Project: Jefferson Papers
Title: Hugh Nelson to Thomas Jefferson, 22 February [1815]
Author: Nelson, Hugh
Recipient: Jefferson, Thomas
Date: 22 February 1815

Reference

Cite as: “Hugh Nelson to Thomas Jefferson, 22 February [1815],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-08-02-0226. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 8, 1 October 1814 to 31 August 1815, ed. J. Jefferson Looney. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011, p. 282.]

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