1Thomas Jefferson to James P. Patterson, 18 May 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
The morning that I left your house, my servants left within your bar, where the other baggage had been deposited, a Latin book, Cornelius Nepos, which I trust you found there, and request you to keep until I call for it. When I told you the distances of the road, as indicated by my odometer, it escaped me that it needed a small correction from the circumstance that my wheel is not so large by...