1Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 27 August 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
As you were so kind as to give me your invention of the handsome and peculiarly American capital, I must give you mine of the new Dial to which that Capital has led. I had placed the Capital on a pedestal of the size proper to it’s diameter, and had reconciled their confluence into one another by interposing plinths successively diminishing. it looked bald for want of something to crown it. I...