1Thomas Jefferson to Louis H. Girardin, 22 April 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
I return you the 15 th 16 th and 17 th chapters which I have kept too long; but since mr Millegan ’s arrival I have scarcely had a moment at command. I have made a few verbal alterations only as usual, except in the 15 th where I suggest an alteration giving a more precise explanation of the transaction it relates to than your text had done. but I observe an omission of one of the most...
2Thomas Jefferson to John Hollins, 22 April 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
The present arrangements of our post office put out of our power the answering our Northern letters under a week. your favor of the 10 th has been that time in my hands, and this circumstance must account for the delay of my answer. I left Europe in 1789, the French revolution being then begun. in it’s course, it swept off the far greater part of my friends, these and a lapse of 26. years has...