1Edward F. Bond to Thomas Jefferson, 5 January 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
The conviction that a man w of your Standing in the Republick of the United States is often pestered with addresses Pettitions and Requests for favours gives birth to an almost unconquerable Diffidence, and induces me thus to Preface the Object of the Present Epistle with an appolegy for the Liberty I take, I once had the Honour of an Introductio n by Doct r Archer a member from Harford County...