1To Thomas Jefferson from William Duane, 5 June 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Your kind and consolatory letter of the 31 ult. I have just received on my return from Washington city, where I have been since the 10 th of Feb. engaged in settling accounts of ten years standing and rescuing myself from the opprobrium of being classed among the public defaulters. I will not plague you by a recapitulation of the vexations and injuries I have suffered thro’ the baleful system...