1To Thomas Jefferson from Pierpont Edwards, 12 May 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 29th. of March, came to hand the 9th. of April. It would have received an earlier answer, had I sooner been favored with an Opportunity of conferring with our republican friends, in the various parts of the State—While I feel myself highly flattered by the confidence which you have been pleased to place in me, I at the same time, experience, resulting from that confidence, a...