THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
JEFFERSON, THOMAS, President. Letter boldly signed ("Th:Jefferson") as Secretary of State, to the President of New Hampshire, New York, 19 July 1790. 1 page, 4to, 252 x 197mm. (9 1/2 x 7 3/4 in.), integral blank (separated), ink portions of text have bled, (not affecting legibility), signature unaffected, extreme edges browned, two clean tears at horizontal folds, paper brittle.
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JEFFERSON, THOMAS, President. Letter boldly signed ("Th:Jefferson") as Secretary of State, to the President of New Hampshire, New York, 19 July 1790. 1 page, 4to, 252 x 197mm. (9 1/2 x 7 3/4 in.), integral blank (separated), ink portions of text have bled, (not affecting legibility), signature unaffected, extreme edges browned, two clean tears at horizontal folds, paper brittle.
SECRETARY JEFFERSON SENDS "THE ACT FOR ESTABLISHING...THE PERMANENT SEAT OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES"
Jefferson composes a circular letter: "I have the honor to send you herein inclosed [not present] two copies duly authenticated of the Act for establishing the temporary and permanent seat of the Government of the United States; also of the Act further to provide for the payment of the Invalid Prisoners of the United States..." The Act for establishing the temporary and permanent seat of the United States government designated a ten-mile tract of land, ceded from Maryland and Virginia, as the District of Columbia on which the city of Washington was to be built. President Washington procured Major Pierre-Charles L'Enfant, a French engineer and architect who had fought in the Revolutionary War, to design the city. L'Enfant and Andrew Ellicott, an American experienced in running boundaries, worked together with President Washington in planning the city.
SECRETARY JEFFERSON SENDS "THE ACT FOR ESTABLISHING...THE PERMANENT SEAT OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES"
Jefferson composes a circular letter: "I have the honor to send you herein inclosed [not present] two copies duly authenticated of the Act for establishing the temporary and permanent seat of the Government of the United States; also of the Act further to provide for the payment of the Invalid Prisoners of the United States..." The Act for establishing the temporary and permanent seat of the United States government designated a ten-mile tract of land, ceded from Maryland and Virginia, as the District of Columbia on which the city of Washington was to be built. President Washington procured Major Pierre-Charles L'Enfant, a French engineer and architect who had fought in the Revolutionary War, to design the city. L'Enfant and Andrew Ellicott, an American experienced in running boundaries, worked together with President Washington in planning the city.