“[To Thomas Jefferson from William Frederick Ast, 8 December 1788],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-14-02-0118. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 14, 8 October 1788 – 26 March 1789, ed. Julian P. Boyd. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1958, p. 339.]