Instead of asking you questions on the subject of a Dispensary as we had proposed, I have thought it better to embody the ideas you then gave me in the form of a statute, and then to submit it to your examination with a request that you will commit to paper such additions, corrections and amendments as you would approve, and to favor me with them, that I may incorporate them into the draught I now inclose for that purpose. your’s with friendship and respect

Th: Jefferson