1To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Law, 12 April 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
The enclosed Letter having met with the approbation of some sensible impartial characters, I have been induced reluctantly to intrude with it upon your retirement. The measures you have already adopted have extorted an acknowledgement from those persons who persued a conduct diametrically opposite “that General Washington was the founder but that you Sir will be the maker of the City.” On the...