21Thomas Jefferson to Hugh Nelson, 12 March 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you, dear Sir, for the information in your favor of the 4 th inst. of the settlement, for the present , of the Missouri question. I am so compleatly withdrawn from all attention to public matters, that nothing less could arouse me than the definition of a geographical line, which on an abstract principle is to become the line of separation of these states, and to render desperate the...
22Thomas Jefferson to Hugh Nelson, 2 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Mar. 22. has been duly recieved. by this time a printed copy of my MS. respecting the Batture has I hope been laid on your desk, by which you will percieve that the MS. itself has been recieved long enough to have been sent to N. York , printed, and returned to Washington . On the subject of the omission of the officers of the Virginia state line in the provisions & reservations...