Jun 3, 2023 • 17M

Jefferson's Confidential Letter to Congress [MM3.10 E21]

"Secrecy was his strategy and his predilection."

 
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After the Annual Address, did he walk home, his and Jefferson’s, the President’s House, alone, or with friends? When he did arrive, did Jefferson ask how it went, how the speech was received, how he’d done? What did they have for dinner? Was it quiet that night, “like two mice in a church”? Did Lewis sit on the edge of his bed in the future East Room of the White House and think about the future? Or did glance over at the comically large 1,200 pound cheese wheel that arrived nearly a year ago from well-wishers of Cheshire, Massachusetts, and wonder if he’d be here in a year from now, still carving away, or on the wide Missouri, rocking and rolling into the unknown.

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  • “I. Thomas Jefferson to Philip Mazzei, 24 April 1796,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-29-02-0054-0002. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 29, 1 March 1796 – 31 December 1797, ed. Barbara B. Oberg. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002, pp. 81–83.]

  • “Annual Message to Congress, 15 December 1802,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-39-02-0148. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 39, 13 November 1802–3 March 1803, ed. Barbara B. Oberg. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012, pp. 162–172.]

  • “I. Referral of the Draft to James Madison, 18 November 1802,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-39-02-0017-0002. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 39, 13 November 1802–3 March 1803, ed. Barbara B. Oberg. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012, pp. 17–18.]

  • “II. Referral of the Draft to Albert Gallatin, 19 November 1802,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-39-02-0017-0003. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 39, 13 November 1802–3 March 1803, ed. Barbara B. Oberg. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012, p. 18.]

  • “V. Referral of the Draft to Henry Dearborn, 22 November 1802,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-39-02-0017-0006. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 39, 13 November 1802–3 March 1803, ed. Barbara B. Oberg. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012, p. 27.]

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  • “VI. Dearborn’s Remarks on the Draft, 23 November 1802,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-39-02-0017-0007. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 39, 13 November 1802–3 March 1803, ed. Barbara B. Oberg. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012, p. 28.]

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