1Thomas Jefferson to William Wirt, 5 February 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
It would require a longer letter than my health enables me to write, to detail to you the obstacles which have so long delayed the transmission to you of the papers of Gen l Kosciuzko . ill health on my part has had it’s share, unsuccesful efforts to withdraw the original will in the General ’s own handwriting from the court in which it was recorded, and other untoward obstacles, have never...