1To Thomas Jefferson from Peter Birkman, 12 May 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
It is with feelings of respect due to the Man so dear to his country and so justly honoured by his fellow citizens, that a stranger, in that happy country, approaches to place in your hands a work composed in the U. S. which he hopes, will on examination be found in some degree useful.— The German language is becomming of more importance in the U.S. in the same degree that, a knowledge of the...