1Thomas Jefferson to Valentín de Foronda, 4 October 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Aug. 26. came to hand in the succeeding month and I have now to thank you for the pamphlet it contained. I have read it with pleasure, and find the constitution proposed would probably be as free as is consistent with hereditary institutions. it has one feature which I like much; that which provides that when the three co-ordinate branches differ in their construction of the...
2Thomas Jefferson to Valentín de Foronda, 14 December 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I have had the pleasure of recieving several letters from you, covering printed propositions and pamphlets on the state of your affairs, and all breathing the genuine sentiments of order, liberty & philanthropy with which I know you to be sincerely inspired. we learn little to be depended on here as to your civil proceedings, or of the division of sentiments among you: but in this absence of...