1Thomas Jefferson to John Goodman, Joseph Reed, Isaac Boyer, and William J. Duane, [22] August 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 6 th inst. is delivered to me at this place with an extract from the Franklin Republican of July 29. in these words. ‘Extract of a letter from Virginia . July 13. 1817 . the day before yesterday I was at Monticello , & had the gratification to hear the chief of the elevated group there [mr Jefferson] express his anxious wish for the success of the democratic republican...