As the prosecution of him to judgment might
give room to misrepresentation of the motives, perhaps you may think it
not amiss to discontinue the proceedings. You will receive herewith a
packet of papers, among which are several projects and estimates which
have been given in by different persons, and which are handed on to you,
not as by any means carrying with them any degree of approbation, but
merely, that if you find any thing good in them, you may convert it to
some account. Some of these contain the views of L'Enfant.
I have the honor to be, with the most perfect esteem and respect,
Gentlemen, your most obedient and most humble servant,
Th: Jefferson.
LETTER XCVIII.--TO GOUVERNEUR MORRIS,
TO GOUVERNEUR MORRIS.
Philadelphia, March 10, 1792.
Dear Sir,
My letter of January the 23rd, put under cover to Mr. Johnson in London,
and sent by a passenger in the British packet of February, will have
conveyed to you your appointment as Minister Plenipotentiary of the
United States, at the court of France. By the Pennsylvania, Captain
Harding, bound to Havre de Grace, and plying pretty regularly between
this place and that, you will receive the present letter, with the laws
of the United States, journals of Congress, and gazettes to this day,
addressed to the care of M.
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