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From Thomas Jefferson to the President of the Senate, 24 January 1804

To the President of the Senate

Jan. 24. 1804.

Th: Jefferson to the President of the Senate

Governor Claiborne’s letter accompanying this is communicated merely for information. some of the matter, proper for the hearing of the house, would yet be improper for the press. over two passages, which are personal, blank papers are fixed, because they are not important enough for closed doors, nor proper even to be read with open ones. will you be so good as to return the letter, when read, to mr Harvie who will be waiting to communicate it to the other house?

PrC (DLC); at head of text: “Private.” Not recorded in SJL.

On 23 Jan., the Senate had elected John Brown of Kentucky as president pro tempore due to Aaron Burr’s absence on account of illness (JS description begins Journal of the Senate of the United States, Washington, D.C., 1820-21, 5 vols. description ends , 3:343).

claiborne’s letter: see the next document.

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    From Thomas Jefferson to the President of the Senate, 24 January 1804
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    “From Thomas Jefferson to the President of the Senate, 24 January 1804,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-42-02-0297. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 42, 16 November 1803–10 March 1804, ed. James P. McClure. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016, p. 339.]