Thomas Jefferson said...

To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States:I now lay before Congress a statement of the militia of ...

I am in the habit of noting daily in the list kept for that purpose the letters I receive daily by the names of the writ...

I now communicate, confidentially, such supplementary portions of the same correspondences as I deem improper for public...

These have been much exceeded by the cost of the work done, a fact not known to me till the close of the season.