Extract from Lafayette to George Washington

Nothing Can Excell M. jefferson’s abilities, virtues, pleasing temper, and Every thing in Him that Constitutes the Great States man, zealous Citizen, and Amiable friend.

RC (Lafayette College, PA). Published in the Papers of George Washington: Confederation Series (W. W. Abbot, Dorothy Twohig, Philander D. Chase, Theodore J. Crackel, and others, eds., 1983–), 6:292–5.