1To Thomas Jefferson from Isaac Ball, 21 November 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Your Excellency will please recive, this second Edition of my feeble efforts in the field of literature—through this medium.— The honorable testimony of approbation to my first, manifested in your Excellencys Note of the 3d. April Ult—acted as a stimulus to my exertions to present this second, acceptable to the various classes of respectable patrons.— If I have in any degree contributed to...