“[To Thomas Jefferson from Edmund Pendleton, 17 May 1784],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-07-02-0217. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 7, 2 March 1784 – 25 February 1785, ed. Julian P. Boyd. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1953, p. 271.]