1Thomas Jefferson to Horatio Turpin, 20 January 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Dec. 8. arrived here just as I had set out on a journey to Bedford which occasioned an absence of some weeks. it was not till my return that I recieved your letter, and before that I had seen that a Marshal was already appointed. these births are so generally hopeless. it is for the most part the case of one loaf and ten persons seeking bread. an expected call to Richmond last...