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From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 18 March 1792

To George Washington

Sunday Mar. 18. 1792.

Th: Jefferson having received information that a vessel sails from New York for Amsterdam about Wednesday, is endeavoring to get ready the necessary papers for Messrs. Short and Carmichael, to go by tomorrow’s post. He beleives it impossible; but in order to take the chance of it, he troubles the President to sign the Commission to-day, which Mr. Taylor now carries to him for that purpose.

RC (DNA: RG 59, MLR); addressed: “The President of the U.S.”; endorsed by Lear. Tr (same, SDC). Not recorded in SJL or SJPL.

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    From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 18 March 1792
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    Jefferson, Thomas
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    18 March 1792

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    “From Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 18 March 1792,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-23-02-0262. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 23, 1 January–31 May 1792, ed. Charles T. Cullen. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990, p. 320.]

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