Thomas Jefferson : miscellaneous papers, 1782-1819.

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Thomas Jefferson : miscellaneous papers, 1782-1819.

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Jefferson's 18 Mar. 1792 letter with instructions to William Carmichael and William Short, U.S. commissioners to Spain negotiating navigation of the Mississippi River, requests progress reports, and sends negotiation instructions; a 24 Apr. 1792 letter containing instructions originally drafted in Aug. 1782 by a Congressional committee for U.S. ministers to use at the Court of Versailles to brief Louis XVI on peace negotiations; and a 30 June 1793 letter to Carmichael and Short conveying instructions. A 24 Jan. 1819 letter to Thomas C. Flournoy comments on Flournoy's preference for a military vocation over a legal one, and praises Richard M. Johnson and John Breckinridge and his family.

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Carmichael, William, c. 1739-1795

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Johnson, Richard M. (Richard Mentor), 1780-1850

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Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

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