1From Thomas Jefferson to James Main, 19 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 10th. has been duly recieved. certainly I would with great pleasure contribute any thing in my power to render the history you propose to write a faithful account of the period it will comprehend. nothing is so desirable to me, as that after mankind shall have been abused by such gross falsehoods as to events while passing, their minds should at length be set to rights by...