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From George Washington to the Cabinet, 14 September 1796

To the Cabinet

Philadelphia 14th Sept. 1796

Sir,

As I cannot, without peculiar inconvenience to my private concerns, remain in this City beyond sunday next,1 I desire that all the business in your department which calls for my immediate attention, may be presented to me in the course of this week.

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LB, DNA: RG 59, GW’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State.

1. The next Sunday was 18 September.

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    From George Washington to the Cabinet, 14 September 1796
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    “From George Washington to the Cabinet, 14 September 1796,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-20-02-0430. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Presidential Series, vol. 20, 1 April–21 September 1796, ed. David R. Hoth and William M. Ferraro. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, p. 688.]

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