Although Logan described it as a communication from Joseph Priestley to himself, the enclosure seems to have been part of a letter from an unidentified correspondent to Priestley, describing Alexander I as “a sort of Phenomenon in the political world”; acknowledging that the author knows the Russian emperor indirectly through Frédéric César de La Harpe, who educated Alexander “from the Age of eight years, to the time of his marriage” and from whom Alexander received a “thoroughly Republican education”; quoting an undated letter from Alexander to La Harpe in which the emperor expresses his desire to reduce “to practice the lessons you have Taught” and become “an instrument of the happiness and liberty of this hitherto ill instructed and ill governed People”; revealing that Alexander has invited La Harpe to return and advise him and that his ukases on liberty of the press and the abolition of slavery show that he has already begun his reforms; and reporting that the author and La Harpe have collaborated to produce a “code to reform as moderate as Republicans could well make” (Tr in DLC: TJ Papers, 208:37017–9; in an unidentified hand; undated; at head of text: “Extract of a Letter from ______ to Dr Priestley, received by him a short time before his Death” [which occurred on 6 Feb. 1804]).