RC (MHi); at foot of text: “Hon. Thomas Jefferson Monticello Va”; endorsed by TJ as received 17 June 1819 and so recorded in SJL. Enclosure: Plumer, Governor’s Message ([Concord?, 1819]; probably Poor, Jefferson’s Library description begins Nathaniel P. Poor, Catalogue. President Jefferson’s Library, 1829 description ends , 11 [no. 689]), consisting of Plumer’s 2 June 1819 “Communication” to the New Hampshire legislature, in which he transmitted numerous official documents to that body; explained that he had declined reelection the previous year due to the “ill state of my health, and a respect to the principle of rotation in office” (p. 4); summarized “the principles, and course of conduct I have adopted and pursued during my administration” (p. 4), including a reduction of the state debt and the exercise of his right to veto bills and resolutions, appoint officers, and grant pardons; and declined compensation for duties related to the gubernatorial administration of the state prison, noting instead that he “never accepted office for the sake of its emoluments” (p. 10).