Thomas Jefferson Papers

From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Quarles, 8 June 1793

To Robert Quarles

Philadelphia June 8. 1793.

Sir

I received, on the 3d. instant your favor of May 19. and immediately transmitted it to the accountant of the war office, and now inclose you his answer. Whatever you shall think proper to decide on this subject, if you will be so good as to inform me by letter, it shall be properly communicated, and brought to such an issue as the laws will justify. I am Sir Your very humble servt

Th: Jefferson

PrC (DLC); at foot of text: “Mr. Robert Quarles. Columbia.” Tr (DLC); 19th-century copy. Enclosure not found.

The accountant of the War Office was Joseph Howell, Jr. (Syrett, Hamilton description begins Harold C. Syrett and others, eds., The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, New York, 1961–87, 27 vols. description ends , xi, 451n).

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    From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Quarles, 8 June 1793
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    Jefferson, Thomas
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    “From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Quarles, 8 June 1793,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-26-02-0213. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 26, 11 May–31 August 1793, ed. John Catanzariti. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995, p. 235.]

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