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From Thomas Jefferson to Edward Preble, 4 March 1805

To Edward Preble

[4 Mch. 1805]

Th: Jefferson requests the favour of Commodore Preble to dine with him on Tuesday 5th. at half after three,

The favour of an answer is asked.

RC (DLC: Edward Preble Papers); undated; printed form, with blanks filled by Isaac A. Coles reproduced in italics; addressed by Coles: “Commodore Preble”; endorsed by Preble.

According to Preble’s memorandum book, he arrived in Washington on 4 Mch. 1805 “and waited on the President” (NDBW description begins Dudley W. Knox, ed., Naval Documents Related to the United States Wars with the Barbary Powers, Washington, D.C., 1939-44, 6 vols. and Register of Officer Personnel and Ships’ Data, 1801-1807, Washington, D.C., 1945 description ends , 5:389). TJ recorded Preble at dinner Tuesday, 5 Mch. (Appendix II).

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    From Thomas Jefferson to Edward Preble, 4 March 1805
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    “From Thomas Jefferson to Edward Preble, 4 March 1805,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-45-02-0646. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 45, 11 November 1804 to 8 March 1805, ed. James P. McClure et al. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021, p. 678.]

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