1To Thomas Jefferson from Edmund Perryman, 29 April 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I seize my cloven plume with a scriveners hand to portray to your view a scenery of the internal emotions of my mind: but language fails. Had I the coruscations of eloquence that flowed from the mouth of Cicero or the cogent reasons that so much adorn the name of Demosthanese I should fail to demonstrate the Ideas that surcharge the recepticle of my prolific imagination: I do not wish to write...