“ which I had with him at my own request, that he now has in his possession documents which will show that the passage in the Notes is incorrect.

"As the feelings of M ^r. Martin & his friends have been wounded by this part of the Notes, I am anxious that there should be an understanding upon this subject and their minds made easy.

"I can see no good reason why M ^r. Jefferson should not give some speedy assurance directly to M ^r. Martin or to some of his friends that the correction shall take place.

"Altho in the Great Concerns of our Country we have differed as to the course which it was best to pursue, yet there has never been a time when I had not the highest respect & esteem for the character of M ^r. Jefferson and of late having resided under the same roof with him, and been an eye witness of his deportment both public & private; I am free to declare that his virtues have endeared him to me.

"To lessen the number of his Enemies & assuage the accrimony of those which he now has, are objects which I have much at heart.

"I have the disposition to say much upon this subject, but a future occasion may be embraced with more propriety.

"I however now from a strong & sincere desire to quiet the mind of my friend M ^r. Martin, as well as for other considerations, entreat you to press upon the mind of Mr. Jefferson the propriety of not adding unnecessarily to the Number of his Enemies--they are already numerous & bitter enough God knows.

"Whatever he does upon the subject matter of this letter, I know will be strongly marked with that sincerity candour & simplicity which has so eminently distinguished his character.

"I will thank you for any communication respecting our public affairs.”

This letter, without address, is in the Jefferson Papers in the Library of Congress, endorsed by Jefferson: Henry Gov ^r of Maryland. 97. Dec.

Jefferson wrote to Governor Henry in a letter dated from Philadelphia December 31, 1797, which is printed as the Introduction to this Appendix.

“ M ^r. Tazewell has communicated to me the enquiries you have been so kind as to make relative to a passage in the Notes on Virginia, which has lately excited some newspaper publications. I feel with great sensibility the interest you take in this business and with pleasure go into explanations with one whose objects I know to be truth & justice alone. had m ( ^~ r) Martin thought proper to suggest to me that doubts might be entertained of the transaction respecting Logan, as stated in the Notes on Virginia, & to enquire on what grounds that statement was founded, I should have felt myself obliged by the enquiry, have informed him candidly of the grounds, & cordially have cooperated in every means of investigating the fact, & correcting whatsoever in it should be found to have been erroneous. but he chose to step at once into the newspapers, & in his publications there, & the letters he wrote to me, adopted a style which forbade the respect of an answer. sensible however that no act of his could absolve me from the justice due to others, as soon as I found that the story of Logan could be doubted, I determined to enquire into it as accurately as the testimony remaining after a lapse of twenty odd years would permit, & that the result should be made known either in the first new edition which should be printed of the Notes on Virginia, or by publishing an Appendix. I thought that so far as that work had contributed to impeach the memory of Cresap, by handing on an erroneous charge, it was proper it should be made the vehicle of retribution. not that I was at all the author of the injury. I had only concurred with thousands & thousands of others in believing a transaction on authority which merited respect. for the story of Logan is only repeated in the Notes on Virginia precisely as it had been current more than a dozen years before they were published. when L ^d. Dunmore returned from his expedition against the Indians in 1774. he & his officers brought the speech of Logan, & related the circumstances of it. these were so affecting, & the speech itself so fine a morsel of eloquence that it became the theme of every conversation, in Williamsburg particularly, & generally indeed wheresoever any of the officers resided or resorted. I learned it in Williams-

" I have gone, my dear Sir, into this lengthy detail to satisfy a mind, in the candour and rectitude of which I have the highest confidence. so far as you may incline to use the communication for rectifying the judgments of those who are willing to see things truly as they are, you are free to use it. but I pray that no confidence which you may repose in any one may induce you to let it go out of your hands so as to get into a newspaper. against a contest in that field I am entirely decided. I feel extraordinary gratification indeed in addressing this letter to you, with whom shades of difference in political sentiment have not prevented the interchange of good opinion, nor cut off the friendly offices of society & good correspondence. this political tolerance is the more valued by me who consider social harmony as the first of human felicities, & the happiest moments those which are given to the effusions of the heart. accept them sincerely, I pray you from one who has the honor to be, with sentiments of high respect and attachment, Dear Sir . . . ”