1To Thomas Jefferson from John Thomson Mason, 5 October 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I have this moment received the inclosed letter from a Gentleman I beleive personally known to you. The letter I think might have been properly addressed to you and therefore it is that I take the liberty of thus sending it. The great respect and attachment which I formed for the author of this letter in early life, and which the lapse of seventeen years has ripened into a sincere friendship,...
2To Thomas Jefferson from John Thomson Mason, 20 October 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I some time ago took the liberty to mention to you my friend N. Fitzhugh as a person willing to fill the vacancy about to be made by the resignation of James Marshall. Why or wherefore I know not, I have this day received two letters from thorough going Feds. To you I take the liberty of inclosing them, not because I think them recommendations but merely because they relate to a subject upon...