Thomas Jefferson Papers

Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, [22 February 1793]

To George Washington

[22 Feb. 1793]

Th: Jefferson with his respects to the President, incloses him a letter he received from Mr. Short yesterday, by which he expected to leave the Hague on the 12th. of December: also the answers he has prepared to the two petitions from Post Vincennes.

RC (DNA: RG 59, MLR); undated; addressed: “The President of the US.”; endorsed by Tobias Lear as a letter of 22 Feb. 1793. Tr (Lb in same, SDC). Not recorded in SJL. Enclosures: (1) William Short to TJ, 8 Dec. 1792. (2) TJ to Pierre Billet, 21 Feb. 1793. (3) TJ to Paul Gamelin, 21 Feb. 1793.

Washington approved the answers … to the two petitions from post vincennes and returned them to TJ this day (Washington, Journal description begins Dorothy Twohig, ed., The Journal of the Proceedings of the President, 1793–1797, Charlottesville, Va., 1981 description ends , 62).

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    Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, [22 February 1793]
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    Jefferson, Thomas
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    Washington, George
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    22 February 1793

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    “Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, [22 February 1793],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-25-02-0229. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 25, 1 January–10 May 1793, ed. John Catanzariti. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992, p. 254.]

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