1To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Wood, 11 December 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I am personally unknown to you, but as an american and consequently one of your children, I address you with the confidence and respect that a child would a parent M r Furst, a foreigner was engaged in June 1807 by M r , Appleton, Consul General, then at Leghorn in Italy, as die-sinker to the U.S. Mint, and was induced solely by that engagement to leave an elegible and profitable situation in...