right, we are without the indications which may enable us to do it. If
the researches of the Secretary at War should produce any thing proper
for communication, and pertinent to any point we can conceive in the
defence before the court, it shall be forwarded to you. I salute you
with respect and esteem.

Th: Jefferson.




LETTER LI.--TO GEORGE HAY, June 17, 1807


TO GEORGE HAY.

Washington, June 17, 1807.

Sir,

In answering your letter of the 9th, which desired a communication of
one to me from General Wilkinson, specified by its date, I informed
you in mine of the 12th that I had delivered it, with all other papers
respecting the charges against Aaron Burr, to the Attorney General,
when he went to Richmond; that I had supposed he had left them in
your possession, but would immediately write to him, if he had not, to
forward that particular letter without delay. I wrote to him accordingly
on the same day, but having no answer, I know not whether he has
forwarded the letter. I stated in the same letter, that I had desired
the Secretary at War, to examine his office, in order to comply with