From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 7 October 1792
To Thomas Jefferson
Mount Vernon, 7 Oct. 1792. Forwards to Philadelphia Jefferson’s papers that were “found in the Road” by one of GW’s neighbors, except for a letter to Daniel Carroll of Rock Creek, Md., which has been sent to the Alexandria post office.1
ADfS, DNA: RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB, DLC:GW.
1. Jefferson wrote to James Madison from Bladensburg, Md., on 1 Oct. that he had “unfortunately dropped” some papers “in the road between Mount Vernon and Alexandria” (see 24:432–33, and note, which lists the dropped papers, including a letter of undetermined date from Madison to Carroll).