1. Jefferson submitted this letter on 6 May, and GW returned all of the enclosures except the pamphlet, on that same date (JPP, description begins Dorothy Twohig, ed. The Journal of the Proceedings of the President, 1793–1797. Charlottesville, Va., 1981. description ends 129).

2. Thomas Pinckney’s letter to Jefferson of 12 Mar. is printed in Jefferson Papers, description begins Julian P. Boyd et al., eds. The Papers of Thomas Jefferson. 41 vols. to date. Princeton, N.J., 1950–. description ends 25:370–71. On the documents enclosed in Pinckney’s letter, see JPP, description begins Dorothy Twohig, ed. The Journal of the Proceedings of the President, 1793–1797. Charlottesville, Va., 1981. description ends 129. For Cox’s employment as assayer for the U.S. Mint, see Jefferson to GW, 16 Nov. 1792 (second letter).

3. For details on Jefferson’s letter to Gouverneur Morris and Pinckney of 15 Mar., see Jefferson to GW, 15 Mar., and note 2. On 6 May, Jefferson again sent to GW “the copy of the letter on the subject of M. de la Fayette, supposing it might be agreeable to keep it by him. there is another copy retained for the office” (DNA: RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters).

4. This may have been Charles James Fox’s most recent publication, A Letter from the Right Honourable Charles James Fox, to the Worthy and Independent Electors of the City and Liberty of Westminster (London, 1793), but the only pamphlet by Fox in GW’s library at the time of his death was Substance of a Speech of the Right Honourable Charles James Fox, on Monday, December 1, 1783. Upon a Motion for the Commitment of the Bill “for Vesting the Affairs of the East-India Company in the Hands of Certain Commissioners, for the Benefit of the Proprietors, and of the Public” (Dublin, 1784); see Griffin, Boston Athenæum Washington Collection, description begins Appleton P. C. Griffin, comp. A Catalogue of the Washington Collection in the Boston Athenæum. Cambridge, Mass., 1897. description ends 83.