1Thomas Jefferson to Regnault de Bécourt, 20 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you for the work you have sent me , & which I have no doubt I shall peruse with equal pleasure & instruction. I percieve by a glance of the eye over it that it brings into question both moral & physical doctrines of long & general standing. but we ought never to fear truth, nor hesitate to follow wherever she leads. I shall be glad to be a subscriber for a couple of copies of the...
2Thomas Jefferson to Regnault de Bécourt, 6 February 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of Jan. 12. has been recieved, & I owe you many thanks for the indulgence with which you consider my judgment in your appeal to it on the subject of your writings. at an earlier time of life I should have been much flattered by your permission to review them and to offer the suggestions which might occur. but the lethargy of a Septuagenary, renders me now equally unable to serve...