1To Thomas Jefferson from Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney, 30 June 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
It would be a proof of either ignorance or apathy, if an obscure individual, a stranger, and a female, were capable of addressing the “Sage of Monticello” without diffidence. Yet I am animated to a course which might seem presumption; by a consciousness that in minds of the highest order, liberality of feeling is want to keep pace with superiority in knowledge, and also by the repeated...
2From Thomas Jefferson to Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney, 18 July 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you Madam, for the kindness of your letter of June 30. and the partial notice you are so good as to take of the part I bore in our great revolutionary struggle. I was one only of many, very many indeed who exerted their best endeavours in the accomplishment of that change in our condition. its success will make it the greatest event in human history, and although rivers of blood are...