1Thomas Jefferson to Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte, 24 April 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor, Madam, of Mar. 23 . from the usual difficulties of the roads in that season, was so long coming to me that there was no hope of an answer still finding you in America: a circumstance of the less importance as my power of being useful to you, in the way requested, falls so far short of my wishes to be so. the fact is that the persons of distinction with whom I had particular...