1To Thomas Jefferson from Francis McClure, 27 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
In a few days Major James Fairlie and some other revolutionary and Republican Characters who interest themselves in my welfare will address you with a view of procuring me a military appointment in the Army of the United States now raising: permit me Sir to trouble you with a few particulars which perhaps these gentlemen might not think necessary to relate. I am an Irishman by birth but an...