Thomas Jefferson Papers

To Thomas Jefferson from Tobias Lear, 7 February 1793

From Tobias Lear

Thursday 7th feby 1793

The President requests the Secretary of State to add words to the effect of those marked by the President with a pencil at the end of the Indians’ Speeches to the President, and return the paper to the President.

RC (DLC).

For TJ’s record of the Indians’ speeches, see Minutes of a Conference with the Illinois and Wabash Indians, printed under 1 Feb. 1793. See note 17 to that document for the words TJ added at Washington’s behest.

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    To Thomas Jefferson from Tobias Lear, 7 February 1793
    Author
    Lear, Tobias
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    Jefferson, Thomas
    Date
    7 February 1793

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    “To Thomas Jefferson from Tobias Lear, 7 February 1793,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-25-02-0141. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 25, 1 January–10 May 1793, ed. John Catanzariti. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992, p. 153.]

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