1From 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...