The correspondence with them
on ordinary business may still be kept up by the Secretary of State, in
his own name.
I enclose also a letter to Major Pinckney, with a blank to be filled up,
when you shall have made up your mind on it. I have conferred with Mr.
M. on the idea of the commissioners of the federal town proceeding to
make private sales of the lots, and he thinks it advisable. I cannot but
repeat, that if the surveyors will begin on the river, laying off the
lots from Rock Creek to the Eastern Branch, and go on, abreast in that
way, from the river towards the back part of the town, they may pass the
avenue from the President's house to the Capitol, before the spring;
and as soon as they shall have passed it, a public sale may take place,
without injustice to either the Georgetown or Carrolsburg interest.
Will not the present afford you a proper occasion of assuring the
commissioners, that you leave every thing respecting L'Enfant to them?
I have the honor to be, with the most sincere respect, Sir, your most
obedient, humble servant,
Th: Jefferson
LETTER LXXXII.--TO MAJOR THOMAS PINCKNEY, November 6, 1791
TO MAJOR THOMAS PINCKNEY.
Philadelphia, November 6, 1791.
Sir,
The mission of a Minister Plenipotentiary to the court of London being
now to take place, the President of the United States is desirous
of availing the public of your services in that office.
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