1Thomas Jefferson to Dabney Carr, 19 January 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
At the date of your letter of Dec. 1. I was in Bedford , & since my return so many letters, accumulated during my absence, have been pressing for answers, that this is the first moment I have been able to ae attend to the subject of yours. while mr Girardin was in this neighborhood writing his continuation of Burke ’s history, I had suggested to him a proper notice of the establishment of the...