1George Watterston to Thomas Jefferson, 26 April 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
You will excuse the liberty I take, as a stranger, in trespassing on your attention— The President has been pleased to appoint me Librarian to Congress. & consiquently superintendent of the books now in your possession. I am solicitous to obtain your opinion, as a gentleman of literary taste, on the subject of arrangement—Your long acquaintance with books & your literary habits have,...