RC (Heritage Auctions, auction 6182, Dallas, 19 Oct. 2017, lot 47062); endorsed by TJ as received 9 (reworked from 10) May 1822 and so recorded in SJL. RC (MoSHi: TJC-BC); address cover only; with Dft of TJ to William Munford, 6 Sept. 1824, on verso; addressed: “Mr Jefferson Monticello near Charlottesville Virginia”; franked; postmarked Orange Court House, 8 May. Enclosure: Richard Rush to Madison, London, 6 Mar. 1822, reporting the delivery of letters from and procurement of a book for Madison; expressing satisfaction that, according to the most recent census, the population of the United States exceeds 9.6 million; calculating that, after deducting for those who have immigrated, the growth in the country’s population since 1790 indicates an ability to double in size by natural increase every quarter of a century; commenting on the unsettled relations between Turkey and Russia, but predicting they will remain at peace and emphasizing Britain’s desire to prevent a rupture that might endanger the status quo in the Balkans; relaying the opinion of the “great and profound” political philosopher Jeremy Bentham that Alexander I of Russia is “a fop and a hypocrite” and that “nothing advantageous, but much of harm, to human liberty” can be expected from his government; enclosing an anonymous British political pamphlet; offering to TJ, through Madison, his “respectful remembrances”; and repeating his willingness, while in London, to assist the nascent University of Virginia in any way he can (RC in PHi: Rush Papers; printed in Madison, Papers, Retirement Ser., 2:489–91).