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To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 5 June 1793

From Thomas Jefferson

[Philadelphia] 5th June 1793

Th: Jefferson with his respects to the President has the honor to enclose him the answer to his note of yesterday.1 Should any article of it need explanation, he will be at the orders of the President for that purpose to do it either verbally or in writing.2

LB, DNA: RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State.

1. For the enclosure, see below.

2. Later on this date, GW forwarded Jefferson’s answer to Attorney General Edmund Randolph for “his opinion & observations” (JPP description begins Dorothy Twohig, ed. The Journal of the Proceedings of the President, 1793–1797. Charlottesville, Va., 1981. description ends , 161).

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    “To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 5 June 1793,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-13-02-0019-0001. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Presidential Series, vol. 13, 1 June–31 August 1793, ed. Christine Sternberg Patrick. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2007, p. 26.]

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