1John Brazer to Thomas Jefferson, 18 October 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the great pleasure of acknowledging the distinguished honour you have conferred upon me by your letter of the 24 th August . I thought it might be forgiven in a young man to feel desirous to offer to your acceptance some of the first fruits of his studies;—and I felt intimately the obligation, which is common to every American citizen, of seizing or making an opportunity of offering to...
2[John Brazer] to Thomas Jefferson, 15 July 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
The perusal of a MS: letter from your hand to the venerable President Adams , on the pronunciation of the Greek, has induced me to send an Article upon the same subject, which was published in the last North Am: Review: If the liberty I take, require other apology, allow me to say, that I have am anxious to testify unmingled respect, as a scholar, to a man, who in the course of a political...