1To Thomas Jefferson from Henry V. Somerville, 5 August 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I feel a high sense of y r liberality and justice both as a man and as a politician and knowing the cheerful promptness with which you are always pleas’d to communicate useful information, I take the liberty to ask the favor of a reply to the following questions. Was M r John Q. Adams Minister abroad at the time you were elected president of the United States; and was he recall’d from any...