1From Thomas Jefferson to Nicholas Fitzhugh, 25 March 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I propose to set out on Thursday or Friday for Monticello, and being afraid to touch the great market roads at this season, I propose to go through Ravensworth . I think you told me there was a better way through that tract than the one I went. will you be so good as to drop me a line of direction how to find it? I am determined also to find some road from Songster’s to the Redhouse without...