1To Thomas Jefferson from John Gardiner, 9 August 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
In presuming to submit the inclos’d proposals for your consideration, I have in view only the public Weal, and the esteem of my fellow Citizens as my reward: having been favor’d by Mr Gallatin with a Clerkship in the Treasury Department, any profit that may arise to the person appointed to superintend the Business, should the proposals be adopted, would not induce me to leave my present...