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- GLC#
- GLC07669
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- January 15, 1792
- Author/Creator
- Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
- Title
- to Pierre C. L'Enfant
- Place Written
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Pagination
- 1 p. : docket Height: 23.4 cm, Width: 19.7 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- The Early Republic
Requests a meeting to go over some papers Jefferson received from President Washington, so that the relationship between the commissioners superintending the building of Washington, D.C. and L'Enfant could be "entirely understood." L'Enfant designed the city of Washington. At the time of this meeting he was experiencing a falling out with the commissioners, and was dismissed from the project following month.
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