1To Thomas Jefferson from William A. Coffey, 19 August 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I herewith send you a copy of “Inside Out”, a work just published in this city for the benefit of its Author, which you will please to accept from him . Divested of his profession, and with a dependant family, without the means of acquiring a livelihood but by the labours of his pen, he has made a trifling attempt at Authorship in the compiling of this work, with the hope in some degree of...