1From Thomas Jefferson to Luigi Antonio Laurenzi, 29 April 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
I some time since recieved through Mr. Appleton, Consul of the US. of America at Leghorn several copies of your excellent discourse on the reformation of legislation, for which I pray you to accept my thanks & more especially for the partial terms in which you are pleased to express your sentiments of myself. the situation of my country is favored by so many circumstances that no effort is...