George Watterston to Thomas Jefferson, 8 March 1816
From George Watterston
City of Washington March 8th 1816.
Dear Sir,
So far from considering your requests troublesome, I feel no little gratification in having it in my power to comply with them. I wish you to beleive that I esteem & respect you too much to regard any little service I can render the man, who has been so instrumental in ameleorating the condition of mankind & contributing to the happiness of his country, as troublesome or unpleasant—
Geo. Watterston
P.S. I have received the two vols of the Virginia laws & am happy to state that I was under a mistake in relation to Morris’1 Accounts—
G.W.
RC (DLC); adjacent to full signature: “T. Jefferson Esqe”; endorsed by TJ as received 13 Mar. 1816 and so recorded in SJL.
For the enclosed epitaph, see , 27:673–5; Dabney Carr to TJ, 1 Dec. 1815, and note.
1. Closing double quotation mark editorially altered to apostrophe.
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