1Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 20 August [1820] (Jefferson Papers)
The gardener who is the subject of your letter is perfectly free to any engagement. being about to quit his present position, he was anxious to fix himself somewhere near enough to supply Charlottesville & the University with vegetables, fixed his eye on that spot of meadow between you & me, and applied for it to me. I had neither wish nor interest that he so should settle there, & merely...