From Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 3 December 1805
[ca. 3 Dec. 1805]
additions proposed on some subjects suggested by mr Gallatin submitted to mr Madison by
Th:J.
the object of the 1st. addition is to give a practical or ostensible object to the observations on Yellow fever: the true one however being to present facts to the governments of Europe, which in the ordinary course of things, would not otherwise reach them in half a century.
DLC: Papers of James Madison.