Or did there friendship end before that?
2007-04-07 02:59:20 · 2 answers · asked by zebbie g 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
No, he did not. Washington was disturbed by Jefferson's letter to Mazzei published in the New York Minerva in 1797 but he did not write Jefferson about it. Part of the confusion is that Jefferson's nephew, Peter Carr, trying to stir up trouble, did write a letter to Washington about the whole mess which Washington answered. There's no evidence that Jefferson knew about Carr's letter.
2007-04-07 03:43:00 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
According to the Library of Congress, no. The Library of Congress has 65,000 documents in its George Washington collection. See first link below. I did a keyword search for Mazzei which turned up a couple of hits but none related to the Mazzei affair. I did a keyword search for Thomas Jefferson. The most recent letter from Washington to Jefferson was Mar 15, 1795, a little too early for the "Mazzei letter" So I think that the main source for the George Washington/Thomas Jefferson rift is from other sources besides personal correspondance between the two men.
2007-04-07 03:29:38 · answer #2 · answered by hgherron2 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋