To Thomas Jefferson from Elizabeth House Trist, 5 November 1801 [document added in digital edition]
From Elizabeth House Trist
Birdwood 5th Nov 1801
Sir
Being desirous of Making you personally acquainted with My friend Mr David Easton I take the liberty of this mode of introduction
He is a Man unused to bow at Courts or attend Drawing Rooms, & altho he has long wish’d to pay you his Respects felt an awkardness he cou’d not surmount without a recommendation of this kind
With respect & Esteem Yours
E. Trist
RC (NcU: Nicholas Philip Trist Papers); endorsed by TJ as received 14 Nov. and so recorded in SJL with notation “Easton.”