1To Thomas Jefferson from Rice W. Wood, 23 February 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter upon the subject of an application to the Virginia Legislature, was handed to me by your Grand-son. I assure you that I felt gratified that you thought proper to make known to me your wishes upon that subject. and I immediately put my shoulder to the wheel to get the matter in progress. I found much aid in the suggestions you had put upon paper, upon the subject of Lotteries, in...