Thomas Jefferson Papers

Memorandum Concerning Public Accounts, April 1789

Memorandum Concerning Public Accounts

United States

1789. April

Press copies of my public accounts to be left in France in case any accident of shipwreck happens to the vessel in which I go to America.

MS (DLC); in TJ’s hand. This may have been a directive to Short or TJ’s reminder to himself. On TJ’s concern for the safety of his public accounts, see note to TJ to Trumbull, 25 Nov. 1789.

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    Memorandum Concerning Public Accounts, April 1789
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    Jefferson, Thomas
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    April 1789

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    “Memorandum Concerning Public Accounts, April 1789,” Founders Online, National Archives, last modified June 13, 2018, http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-15-02-0081. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 15, 27 March 1789 – 30 November 1789, ed. Julian P. Boyd. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1958, p. 84.]