1From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Moore, 3 March 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
My memory is so entirely in default that I do not remember a single circumstance respecting the devices on our coins except that some one having proposed to put Gen l Washington’s head on them it was entirely objected to, and the head of Liberty adopted—but whether with or without the Pileus I do not remember: but surely it ought to be without it, for we are not emancipated slaves. I have...
2From Thomas Jefferson to John C. Page, 3 March 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Feb. 10. is rec d and I can truly assure you that no debt has given me more pain than that which is the subject of it, because I have understood that mrs Eppes was in distress for it. I lost the year before last when it should have been paid the reciept of between 3. & 4000. D. money due me for property disposed of, and this has crippled me ever since. Your order in favor of the...