1Sloan & Wise to Thomas Jefferson, 18 September 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Contrary to our wishes, but in justification, of our private reputations , we feel it an imperious duty to write you on a subject, that we are almost certain, must be unpleasant, to you. We have been made the instruments, (from present appearances, An imposition) of giving publicity to a “ letter from Virginia ” in which it is said that the “chief of the elevated groupe” at Monticello...