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.

Index Entries