1Thomas Jefferson to Lewis D. Belair, 28 June 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you, Sir, for your attention in sending me your catalogue which I now return. I do not find any thing in it of which I am in immediate want. indeed the total stagnation in all money transactions prevailing at present renders it prudent for every one to suspend all new engagements until we see business get again into motion, and indicate it’s future course I should otherwise have been...