1To Thomas Jefferson from William Brent, 7 December 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I am sorry that I have put you to the trouble of explaing to me the Letter which I had the honor to present to you on yesterday. I had not the least curiostity to know from whom it came, unless it had contained some thing improper towards yourself—and it was only from a fear, as it came from New orleans, which is so suspicious a quarter, that it might have conveyed something improper, that I...