1Elijah Griffiths to Thomas Jefferson, 28 January 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I address you a line, not to repeat my fo r mer request, but to say, that if the Bankrupt bill now before Congress showld should become a law, I will still be a petitioner to be a commissioner under it’s provisions, in that event I will be much obliged by your interposition in my behalf in the way you were so kind as to propose formerly . A very painful event took place here last thursday...