1To Thomas Jefferson from Jerman Baker, 15 January 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
The liberty I am about to take with you, wou’d call for more than an ordinary appology, were it not that the subject is one which I beleive you have as much at heart as myself: the education of the youth of this Country. About three years ago, in providing a Minister for the Parish in which I live, it occurr’d to me, that his usefulness might be considerably, as well as beneficially extended,...