1Thomas Jefferson to Mary Blair Andrews, 15 September 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
It has been communicated to me through a friend that you wish my opinion on a paragraph of the will of the late venerated judge Blair , for which purpose a copy of the will has been transmitted to me. it is now more than 40. years since I have retired from the profession of the law, and during this long interval I have been occupied in pursuits which gave little occasion of retaining...