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Nothing can be done to the foundation until a final decision is had, and this decision ought not to be delayed one moment that can be avoided; be - cause time is wasting fast; because the public expectation is alive, and because the daeman Jealousy may be at work in the lower Town when one building is seen to progress rapidly, and

Thomas Jefferson and the National Capital: Containing Notes and Correspondence exchanged between Jefferson, Washington, L'Enfant, Ellicott, Hallett, Thornton, Latrobe, the Commissioners, and others 1797