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Thomas Jefferson to Franklin and John Adams: Résumé, 1 March 1785

Thomas Jefferson to Franklin and John Adams6

AL: American Philosophical Society

⟨March 1, 1785: Mr. Jefferson sends Mr. Adams and Dr. Franklin his notes on the treaty with Prussia.7 When Mr. Adams has perused them, he should send them to Dr. Franklin. Mr. Jefferson proposes a meeting at Passy on Thursday [March 3] at 12 o’clock. He sends “the Prussian propositions, mr. Adams’s & Dr. Franklin’s notes,8 & the former project & observations which were in the hands of Colo. Humphreys.”⟩

[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]

6Published in Jefferson Papers, VIII, 8–9.

7The presumed enclosure is published in Jefferson Papers, VIII, 9–10, and described in annotation of the Commissioners to Thulemeier, March 14 (below).

8Missing.

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