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31 | Washington, George | Jefferson, Thomas | From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 8 April … | 1784-04-08 | If with frankness, and the fullest latitude of a friend, you will give me your opinion of the... |
32 | Washington, George | Jefferson, Thomas | From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 2 June 1784 | 1784-06-02 | It was not until I had arrived at Annapolis, on my way home, that I heard of Colo. Humphrys’s... |
33 | Washington, George | Jefferson, Thomas | From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 25 February … | 1785-02-25 | I had the pleasure to find by the public Gazettes that your passage to France had been short, and... |
34 | Washington, George | Jefferson, Thomas | From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 26 … | 1785-09-26 | I have had the honor to receive your favors of the 10th & 17th of July which were committed to... |
35 | Washington, George | Jefferson, Thomas | From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 1 August … | 1786-08-01 | The letters you did me the favor to write to me on the 4th & 7th of Jany have been duly received.... |
36 | Washington, George | Jefferson, Thomas | From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 30 May 1787 | 1787-05-30 | It has so happened, that the letter which you did me the honor of writing to me the 14th of... |
37 | Washington, George | Jefferson, Thomas | From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 18 … | 1787-09-18 | Yesterday put an end to the business of the Fœderal Convention. Inclosed is a copy of the... |
38 | Washington, George | Jefferson, Thomas | From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 1 January … | 1788-01-01 | I have received your favor of the 15th of August, and am sorry that it is not in my power to give... |
39 | Washington, George | Jefferson, Thomas | From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 31 August … | 1788-08-31 | I was very much gratified by the receipt of your letter, dated the 3d of May. You have my best... |
40 | Washington, George | Jefferson, Thomas | From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 13 February … | 1789-02-13 | Having found that there is a vessel on the point of sailing from Alexandria for Havre de Grace I... |
41 | Washington, George | Jefferson, Thomas | From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 13 October … | 1789-10-13 | In the selection of characters to fill the important offices of Government in the United States I... |
42 | Washington, George | Jefferson, Thomas | From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 30 November … | 1789-11-30 | You will perceive by the enclosed letter (which was left for you at the Office of Foreign Affairs... |
43 | Washington, George | Jefferson, Thomas | Memoranda on Thomas Jefferson’s Letters, 27 August 1789 | 1789-08-27 | Information from our Bankers in Holland that they had money in hand sufft to answer the demands... |
44 | Washington, George | Jefferson, Thomas | From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 21 January … | 1790-01-21 | I had the pleasure to receive duly your letter dated the 15th of Decr last; but I thought proper... |
45 | Washington, George | Jefferson, Thomas | From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 19 June … | 1790-06-19 | The enclosed Letters & documents from Mr Gouvr Morris are sent for the perusal of the Secretary... |
46 | Washington, George | Jefferson, Thomas | From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 26 July … | 1790-07-26 | The President of the United States transmits to the Secretary of State, to report thereon, a... |
47 | Washington, George | Jefferson, Thomas | From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 27 August … | 1790-08-27 | Enclosed is the report (I mentioned to you on our Passage to Rhode-Island) of the Officer who was... |
48 | Washington, George | Jefferson, Thomas | From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 1–7 … | ≈1790-12-01 | The P. requests that Mr J. would give the letter & statement herewith sent from the S. of War a... |
49 | Washington, George | Jefferson, Thomas | From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 11 December … | 1790-12-11 | Herewith you will receive the Powers & Instructions with which Gouvr Morris Esqr. is invested and... |
50 | Washington, George | Jefferson, Thomas | From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 2 January … | 1791-01-02 | The enclosed Notes are sufficiently descriptive to comprehend the two objects fully; but it is... |
51 | Washington, George | Jefferson, Thomas | From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 4 January … | 1791-01-04 | The P. begs to see Mr Jefferson before he proceeds further in the Proclamation. From a more... |
52 | Washington, George | Jefferson, Thomas | From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 1 February … | 1791-02-01 | Nothing in the enclosed letter superceding the necessity of Mr Ellicots proceeding to the work in... |
53 | Washington, George | Jefferson, Thomas | From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 9 February … | 1791-02-09 | The messages to the two Houses, as altered are quite agreeable to. Whether, as it is equally... |
54 | Washington, George | Jefferson, Thomas | From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 6 March … | 1791-03-06 | The P. would thank Mr Jefferson for placing all, or such of the enclosed Papers (after he has... |
55 | Washington, George | Jefferson, Thomas | From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 10 March … | 1791-03-10 | The P. has given the enclosed letters an attentive reading & consideration, and has found nothing... |
56 | Washington, George | Jefferson, Thomas | From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 10 March … | 1791-03-10 | Letter not found: to Thomas Jefferson, 10 Mar. 1791. In his Summary Journal of Public Letters (... |
57 | Washington, George | Jefferson, Thomas | From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 16 March … | 1791-03-16 | Enclosed is the last letter I have received from Messrs Deakins & Stoddart. What step had I best... |
58 | Washington, George | Jefferson, Thomas | From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 17 March … | 1791-03-17 | The P. has just recd the enclosed. He prays Mr Jefferson to write by tomorrows Post to Majr... |
59 | Washington, George | Jefferson, Thomas | From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 31 March … | 1791-03-31 | Having been so fortunate as to reconcile the contending interests of Georgetown and Carrollsburg,... |
60 | Washington, George | Jefferson, Thomas | From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 1 April … | 1791-04-01 | I have had the pleasure to receive your letter of the 27th ult. with the papers which accompanied... |
61 | Washington, George | Hamilton, Alexander | From George Washington to Alexander Hamilton, Thomas … | 1791-04-04 | As the public service may require that communications should be made to me, during my absence... |
62 | Washington, George | Jefferson, Thomas | From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 4 April … | 1791-04-04 | You will readily agree with me that the best interests of the United States require such an... |
63 | Washington, George | Jefferson, Thomas | From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 13 April … | 1791-04-13 | Your letter of the 2d came to my hands at this place. Part of it did as you supposed, & might... |
64 | Washington, George | Jefferson, Thomas | From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 8 May 1791 | 1791-05-08 | The round of business and of ceremony, which now engages my attention, only allows me leisure to... |
65 | Washington, George | Jefferson, Thomas | From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 15 June … | 1791-06-15 | I acknowledged the receipt of your letter of the 2nd of April from Richmond—since which I have... |
66 | Washington, George | Jefferson, Thomas | From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 17 June … | 1791-06-17 | By the last post from the southward I received your letters of the 17th and 24th of April, with... |
67 | Washington, George | Jefferson, Thomas | From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 26 June … | 1791-06-26 | The last post brought me your letter of the 20th instant, and the duplicates of your letters,... |
68 | Washington, George | Jefferson, Thomas | From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 12 July … | 1791-07-12 | The enclosed I send this afternoon, for your perusal. Tomorrow, 8’Oclock, I shall send the person... |
69 | Washington, George | Jefferson, Thomas | From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 28 July … | 1791-07-28 | I have just given the enclosed Letters an acknowledgment, & was about to file them; but not... |
70 | Washington, George | Jefferson, Thomas | From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 21 August … | 1791-08-21 | At eight ’oclock A.M. tomorrow, I set out for Mr Powells farm, to see the operation of Colo.... |
71 | Washington, George | Jefferson, Thomas | Memorandum for Thomas Jefferson, 27 August 1791 | 1791-08-27 | Will circumstances render a postponement of the Sale of Lots in the Federal City advisable? If... |
72 | Washington, George | Jefferson, Thomas | From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 29 August … | 1791-08-29 | The enclosed for Mr Young, I pray you to put under cover to Mr Johnson—the other for Mr Vaughan... |
73 | Washington, George | Jefferson, Thomas | Enclosure: Memorandum for Thomas Jefferson with … | ≈1791-08-27 | Will circumstances render a postponement of the Sale of Lots in the Federal City advisable? If... |
74 | Washington, George | Jefferson, Thomas | From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 25 November … | 1791-11-25 | As the meeting proposed to be held (at nine O’clock tomorrow morning) with the heads of the Great... |
75 | Washington, George | Jefferson, Thomas | From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 30 November … | 1791-11-30 | Mr L’Enfants letter of the 19th of Octr to Mr Lear—Mr Lear’s answer of the 6th instt (the press... |
76 | Washington, George | Jefferson, Thomas | From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 9 December … | 1791-12-09 | Yesterday afternoon Colo. Hamilton was desired, as soon as the Tariff was ready, to let it be... |
77 | Washington, George | Jefferson, Thomas | From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 14 December … | 1791-12-14 | I am very glad to find that matters, after all that has happened, stand so well between the Comrs... |
78 | Washington, George | Jefferson, Thomas | From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 18 December … | 1791-12-18 | The P——requests that Mr J——would give the letter & statement here with sent from the S——y of War... |
79 | Washington, George | Jefferson, Thomas | From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 25 December … | 1791-12-25 | The P—— returns Mr Muters letter, and gives Mr J—— an opportunity of reading one from Judge... |
80 | Washington, George | Jefferson, Thomas | From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 25 December … | 1791-12-25 | You will find by the enclosed that our troubles in the Federal City are not yet at an end. I pray... |