1Thomas Jefferson to William Baldwin (Draft), 19 January 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of the 7 th inst. has been duly recieved, with the pamphlet inclosed, for which I return you my thanks. nothing can be more exactly & seriously true than what is there stated; that but a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of the Jewish religion before his principles were departed from by those who professed to be his special servants, & perverted into an engine for...
2Thomas Jefferson to William Baldwin (Final State), 19 January 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson returns to mr Baldwin his thanks for the copy of the letters of Cerus & Amicus just recieved from him he sincerely wishes it’s circulation among the society of friends may have the effect mr Baldwin expects of abating their prejudices against the government of their country. but he apprehends their disease is too deeply seated: that identifying themselves with the mother society...