1From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Stoddert, 30 August 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 18th. is duly recieved. before it’s reciept however, the letter from the Commrs. to which it referred had been recieved and answered. it contains some facts I had not been before informed of, and which I am glad to learn; but on a review of the subject I do not percieve that a previous knowlege of them could have changed the general answers I gave to the general questions...