specified, we might then have had
some guide for our conjectures, as to what part of the executive records
might be useful to him: but, with a perfect willingness to do what is
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
your further request, to furnish copies of the orders which had been
given respecting Aaron Burr and his property; and in a subsequent letter
of the same day, I forwarded to you copies of two letters from the
Secretary at War, which appeared to be within the description expressed
in your letter. The order from the Secretary of the Navy, you said, you
were in possession of. The receipt of these papers had, I presume, so
far anticipated, and others this day forwarded will have substantially
fulfilled, the object of a subpoena from the District Court of Richmond,
requiring that those officers and myself should attend the Court in
Richmond, with the letter of General Wilkinson, the answer to that
letter, and the orders of the departments of War and the Navy, therein
generally described. No answer to General Wilkinson's letter, other
than a mere acknowledgment of its receipt, in a letter written for a
different purpose, was ever written by myself or any other. To these
communications of papers, I will add, that if the defendant supposes
there are any facts within the knowledge of the Heads of departments, or
of myself, which can be useful for his defen