1To Thomas Jefferson from Louis Guillaume Otto, 28 May 1785 (Jefferson Papers)
I received only this moment the Notes on the State of Virginia together with the congratulation and invitation Your Excellency have honoured me with the 23d. of this month. This delay will I hope sufficiently apologise for my having not sooner acknowledged the favor you have done me. According to your desire I shall be very careful not to trust your work to any person, who might make an...