1To Thomas Jefferson from James Wilson, on or before 16 September 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
It is with considrable embarassment I attempt to address you, conscious that I have no Claim to your Patronage either from recommendation or services done the states, my dependance is entirely upon your Known Benevolence towards the necessitous it is this that induces me in this manner earnestly to solicit your Favour that you would be pleas’d in your Goodness to have me promot’d to some...
2To Thomas Jefferson from James Wilson, on or before 30 September 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I beg leave to inform you I am the person that made application to you at Monticillo for a small employment under Goverment you were pleas’d to refer me to Mr. Gallatan and I have waited in Town untill I am destitute of the means to stop longer unless it is your pleasure the little money when I set out from Baltimore to Montcillo was only Eight dollars which was the whole sum I was possess’d...