1Thomas Jefferson to Robert H. Saunders, 23 June 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of May 9. did not get to hand until the 15 th instant, and your post office not being named in your letter I must direct this to Goochland courthouse where it mentions that you have a plantation. having trees so near as you describe to your house, and higher than the chimnies, I should certainly prefer fixing the Conductor to a tree, as a higher object, and because should the rod...