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To George Washington from Timothy Pickering, 7 September 1795

From Timothy Pickering

Sept. 7. 95.

The Secretary of War respectfully informs the President, that if Mr Wolcott has completed the information he undertook to obtain relative to Spanish commerce, there will be nothing to prevent the President’s commencing his journey to-morrow.1 For it is found impracticable to prepare instructions for further negociations with G. Britain, the instructions & correspondence of Mr Jay being voluminous, & the subjects too important to be hurried.

The Secy of War will see Mr Wolcott, & further advise the President immediately.

AL, DLC:GW.

1Treasury Secretary Oliver Wolcott, Jr., evidently was gathering information for the preparation of instructions that Pickering sent to Thomas Pinckney on 23 Sept. (DNA: RG 59, Diplomatic and Consular Instructions, 1791–1801). GW did, indeed, leave for Mount Vernon on 8 Sept. (see Diaries, description begins Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig, eds. The Diaries of George Washington. 6 vols. Charlottesville, Va., 1976–79. description ends 6:211).

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