1From Thomas Jefferson to James Westwood Wallace, 4 May 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Your frdly lre of Apr. 25 t was duly rec d and altho so much a cripple in both my wrists as to make writing slow & painfull I cannot resist the impulse of the spirit to acknolege it’s res t the degencracy of man, its interesting subject is still a most question , but if a fail I do not think it is on this side the Atlantic we are to seek it. were Buffon alive the holy alliance would point it...