1Isaac Hillard to Thomas Jefferson, 10 September 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Your Late Exalted Situation places You So much above me that it Is with the Greatest Diffidence that I venture to present the Inclosed I have wished for A number of Years that I might have an oppertunity to See the man that has Been So Columniated and Extolled for the Same Act my poverty and Age forbids it Sir you will pardon the Liberty I have taken to present your you with a Small peice of...