1To Thomas Jefferson from Schweighauser & Dobrée, 20 November 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
Having just now learnt your nomination of Secretary of State, we beg leave to present you with our fellicitations and sincerely congratulate your Countrymen convinced that the greatest blessings a State can enjoy flows from a well chosen Ministry.—This Event destroys the hopes we have long entertained of seing you return to france and of bringing our unhappy affair against the Alliance to a...