this quarter.

I am with great and sincere esteem, Dear Sir, your most obedient and
most humble servant,

Th: Jefferson.




LETTER XXX.--TO MR. DUMAS, June 23, 1790


TO MR. DUMAS.

New York, June 23, 1790.

Dear Sir,

I arrived at this place the letter[sp.] end of March, and undertook
the office to which the President had been pleased to appoint me, of
Secretary of State, which comprehends that of Foreign Affairs. Before I
had got through the most pressing matters which had been accumulating, a
long illness came upon me, and put it out of my power for many weeks to
acknowledge the receipt of your letters.

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