1To Thomas Jefferson from Stephen Simpson, 20 October 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
A sincere and devoted attachment to the political principles which are associated with your name, and which owe so much of their permanence and celebrity to your exertions in the cause of Democracy; has long inspired me with a wish to see the would in possession of such a Biography of the Author of The Declaration of Independence, as will do justice to his character, at the same time that it...
2From Thomas Jefferson to Stephen Simpson, 27 October 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 20 th has been duly recieved. the same request and on the same subject has been made to me by others, more frequently I am sure than the subject merited. but I have uniformly declined any participation in the history of myself. if any public transactions of mine are worth remembering they will be found in the public records and papers; and details which are less known will...