among his own: Latrobe to TJ, 3 May, with enclosures.

on his honor: Latrobe’s six-page letter to Lenthall ended with a comment on TJ: “I am sorry that I am cramped in this design by his prejudices in favor of the architecture of the old french books, out of which he fishes every thing,—but it is a small sacrifice to my personal attachment to him to humor him, and the less so, because the style of the Colonnade he proposes is exactly consistent with Hoban’s Pile,—a litter of pigs worthy of the great Sow it surrounds, & of the Irish boar, the father of her.” After Lenthall advised Latrobe of what had occurred, Latrobe wrote to him on 11 May: “The President, might have very safely read the whole of my last letter to you, even to the litter of pigs. He is certainly one of the best hearted Men that ever came out of the hands of Nature and has one of the best heads also. But he thinks works & acts differently from others, & who ever does that must submit to abuse, let the new road he travels be ever so much shorter, clearer, & pleasanter. As a Man, I never knew his superior in candor, kindness, and universal information;—as a political character he has not his equal any where in patriotism, right intentions, & uniform perseverance in the System he has conceived to be the most beneficial for his country.—Nothing in fact exists, in his whole character, on which to fasten ridicule and censure but his manner, and a few oddities of appearance and of conduct which are perfectly innocent & probably very right” (RC in DLC: District of Columbia Papers).