1To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Hawkins, 15 January 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer Mr. William Hill is an assistant in this agency as I have known him for five years and believe him to be a very honest and useful man I have thought him worthy of an introduction to you, that you may hear from such a man a detail of occurrences in this quarter. The object of his Visit to the seat of government is to carry the accounts and Vouchers in this department to the War...
2To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas S. Kennedy, 14 January 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just seen your Excellency’s nomination of Mr. Monroe to the appointment of Minister to France &c announc’d in the public prints. If this information be correct, there is no doubt of the Senate’s Concurrence, in which event ’tis probable Mr. Monroe will shortly be at Washington Should the office of Secretary to the Embassy be vacant upon his arrival there, and this be the first...