1To Thomas Jefferson from James Lyon, 20 July 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I am ashamed to be so troublesome as I am compelled to be to those whom I have taken the liberty to suppose are friendly to me; but I believe there are few men, who in their youth do not contract obligations that make them ashamed before they are thirty. Had I not a family to protect and support, misfortune would be little to me,—I could bear it, or fly from it, as I am I must suffer or...