Thomas Law to Thomas Jefferson, 8 February 1817

From Thomas Law

Washington Feby 8th 1817.

Dear Sir—

Permit me to request your attention to the enclosed—I have endeavored to convey my sentiments with perspicuity & energy—The subject is a most important one, & I obeyed the impulse of duty—Conscious how much prejudice I have to encounter, I hope that some abler pen, will strengthen what is weak & enlighten what may be obscure—

I remain With sincere esteem

Thos Law—

RC (DLC); endorsed by TJ as received 16 Feb. 1817 and so recorded in SJL. RC (DLC); address cover only; with PoC of TJ to James Monroe, 13 Apr. 1817, on verso; addressed: “To Thomas Jefferson Esq Monte Cello”; franked; postmarked Washington City, 10 Feb. Enclosure: Law, Homo’s Letters on a National Currency, addressed to the People of the United States (Washington, 1817; Poor, Jefferson’s Library description begins Nathaniel P. Poor, Catalogue. President Jefferson’s Library, 1829 description ends , 12 [no. 710]).

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Source Project: Jefferson Papers
Title: Thomas Law to Thomas Jefferson, 8 February 1817
Author: Law, Thomas
Recipient: Jefferson, Thomas
Date: 8 February 1817

Reference

Cite as: “Thomas Law to Thomas Jefferson, 8 February 1817,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-11-02-0046. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 11, 19 January to 31 August 1817, ed. J. Jefferson Looney. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014, pp. 61–62.]

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