RC (DNA: RG 59, GPR); at foot of text: “To the President of the United States”; endorsed by TJ as received 9 Mch. and so recorded in SJL, where TJ listed letters received on 9 Mch. under 8 Mch. Enclosure: Walter Jones, Jr., to Peacock, Alexandria, 4 Mch., acknowledging the receipt of her letter of 27 Feb.; Jones is aware of Robert Ware Peacock’s situation and strongly sympathizes with Eliza Peacock’s sufferings, but his official situation forbids his becoming, “on any occasion of the sort, a petitioner in the common form, to the President”; she may count on his “friendly dispositions” toward her, however, and he assures her that if her petition fails, “it must be the inevitable result of a strict & conscientious regard to public duty, overcoming the suggestions of the Truest philanthropy” (RC in same).