1From Thomas Jefferson to William Lyman, 30 April 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 11th. of July came to hand a little before the meeting of Congress, and soon afterwards I recieved the apparatus for Stylographic writing which you were so kind as to send me, for which I pray you to recieve my particular thanks. the invention is certainly very ingenious, and while it compares advantageously with all others in other circumstances, it has an unrivalled...