1Richard Bache to Thomas Jefferson, 3 January 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
The kindness with which you have always treated every individual of my family, personally acquainted with you, and the desire of evincing my own respect, induces me to enclose you a prospectus of a paper I am about establishing. Should it meet your approbation I shall be h ighly gratified; I can hardly venture upon asking you to continue a correspondence, notwithstanding I should feel highly...