George Washington Papers
Documents filtered by: Author="Washington, George" AND Recipient="Jefferson, Thomas" AND Recipient="Jefferson, Thomas"
sorted by: editorial placement
Permanent link for this document:
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-10-02-0006

From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 2 March 1792

To Thomas Jefferson

[Philadelphia] Friday-Morning, 2d March [1792]

Be so good as to examine the enclosed draught of a letter to Genl St Clair, and make such alterations (with a pencil) as you shall judge proper; as letter and answer will, it is presumed, be handed to the public.1 The bearer will wait to bring it back to me.

AL, DLC: Jefferson Papers.

1. Henry Knox’s enclosed draft of GW’s letter to Maj. Gen. Arthur St. Clair has not been found (see Knox to GW, 1 Mar., n.1). The correspondence between St. Clair and the president concerning the resignation of St. Clair’s military commission was printed in the 14 April edition of the Gazette of the United States (Philadelphia) and in the 16 April issue of the National Gazette (Philadelphia); see St. Clair to GW, 26, 31 Mar., 7 April, and GW to St. Clair, 28 Mar., 4 April 1792.

Index Entries

    You Are Looking At

    Source Project
    Washington Papers
    Title
    From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 2 March 1792
    Author
    Washington, George
    Recipient
    Jefferson, Thomas
    Date
    2 March 1792

    Reference

    Cite as
    “From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 2 March 1792,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-10-02-0006. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Presidential Series, vol. 10, 1 March 1792 – 15 August 1792, ed. Robert F. Haggard and Mark A. Mastromarino. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2002, p. 11.]

    More between these correspondents