Box 2
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S[amuel] S[mith] to Wilson Cary Nicholas, after opening his letter with the adage: "there are such things as the lie outright, the fib, and the white lie," Smith accuses [Jefferson] of deceit, if he claimed that Smith had been considered as a third person on the Spanish mission. Instead, Smith believed that "the place I ought to have been named for was a third with Monroe and Pinckney to make the Commercial Treaty at Great Britain. Neither of them can know anything of the practical concerns of this country - everybody expected such an offer to me." Continues to express his frustration at his exclusion from the mission to Great Britain and mentions Stephen Higginson, "the head of the Essex Junto one of the best informed merchants in the Union,", 1806 May 16
This collection consists of the papers of the Randolph Family of Edgehill, (commonly called the Edgehill-Randolph Papers) and the Wilson Cary Nicholas papers, ca. 787 items (6 Hollinger boxes, 2.5 linear shelf feet), ca. 1765-1869, and undated.