1To Thomas Jefferson from Elijah Brainerd, 11 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Pray be so good, as to permit an unfortunate citizen to address you, with modesty & deference—From your election to the first office, in our nation, my hopes of redress, in my claim on my country, revive—not as to a pension, or any direct assistance, but because, foreign influence, British partiality, and the charm of nobility gilded by property, will now as I hope, cease to disturb the peace...