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Article: Department of State
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Department of State
Jerry Israel and
David L. Anderson
Upon his resignation in 1792, Henry Remsen, the first chief clerk of the Department of State, left the following instructions:
Such of the Foreign Letters as are not filed away in the cases, are for the present put on my desk in two pigeon holes at the right hand side. The Consular returns are at the bottom of said desk right hand side
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the drafts of foreign proceedings
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are filed in said desk left hand pigeon hole. The letters from our ministers and
charge des affaires
now in commission Mr. Jefferson keeps
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. A little attention will be necessary inseparating the foreign from the domestic letters, ...