1From Thomas Jefferson to John H. Dye, 30 April 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 21 st was rec d yesterday, but I must pray to be excused from entering into the subjects therein proposed to my considn. age and debility have obliged me to withdraw from political speculns . leaving them, as I chearfully do, to the genern whose concern they properly are. my last efforts towds being useful are now engaged in the establmit of an institn of much promise to our...