1Thomas Munroe to Thomas Jefferson, 5 January 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you very sincerely, Sir, for the kind expressions contained in your Letter of 1 t instant , rec d today.—The favorable terms you were pleased to use towards me, in a Letter you did me the honor to address to me in 1815, approving the humble Official Agency, I had exercised under you, and by your appointment, together with your the urbane and polite treatment I had always received from...
2Thomas Munroe to Thomas Jefferson, 20 December 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
My Son (Thomas) now in the 24 th year of his age, who was educated at Yale College , and has since studied law, having always evinced, and still continuing to have so decided a preference of a the military profession to all others, that his mother and myself have yielded to his wishes, and he will shortly proceed to S t Petersburg to offer his services to the Emperor of Russia ; with the...