1To Thomas Jefferson from Anne Blair Banister, 19 February 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
On the score of old acquaintance, and a knowledge of your humane disposition, I am emboldned to entreat your favor in behalf of Mrs. Oster (the French Consuls Lady) who has been misrepresented by her cruell Husband to the Minister. The inclosed therefore is her Vindication—and which necessity alone wou’d have extorted from her. It is left open for your perusal; when having so done, flatter...