1From Thomas Jefferson to Peter Carr, 25 October 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I promised you one of the inclosed volumes, and one also for mr Peter Johnston for whom you requested the perusal of my Parliamentary Commonplace. the inclosed contains every thing useful from that, debarrassed of it’s rubbish.—we have recieved the first Consul’s ratification of our Convention. it is with a ‘ bien entendu toujours that the objects of the article suppressed are abandoned by...