RC (PPAP). Dft (DLC).

On 28 Dec. 1782 James Madison wrote to Edmund Randolph: “Mr. [Jefferson] arrived here on friday last, and is industriously arming himself for the field of negociation. The commission issued to Mr. Oswald impresses him with a hope that he may have nothing to do on his arrival but join in the celebrations of victory and peace. [Congress] however anxiously espouse the expediency of his hastening to his destination” (Burnett, Letters of Members description begins Edmund C. Burnett, ed., Letters of Members of the Continental Congress, Washington, D.C., 1921–36, 8 vols. description ends , vi, No. 722; the words in brackets were written in cipher). On 8 Jan. 1783 Washington, from Newburgh, wrote Livingston: “What office is Mr. Jefferson appointed to, that he has, you say, lately accepted? If it is that of Commissioner of Peace, I hope he will arrive too late to have any hand in it. My best respects to him when he arrives” (FC in DLC: Washington Papers). It was possibly during these days at Philadelphia, where he arrived on 27 Dec., that TJ first met Alexander Hamilton, who was then a member of Congress. The something new that TJ refers to here was doubtless Document No. I in the preceding series.