1To Thomas Jefferson from Nathaniel Cutting, 27 August 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
Under the 19th. Feby. ulto. I took the liberty of communicating to you some of the reflections excited in my mind by the critical and alarm-state of the political relation between the United States of America and France. The vessel which conveyed the original of that Letter was conducted into England; but I hope that a duplicate, which went by a Mr. Lee , whose arrival in America I have heard...