Extract from Thomas Jefferson to “Henry Tompkinson” (Samuel Kercheval)

Monticello July 12. 16.

I have not been in the habit of mysterious reserve on any subject, nor of buttoning up my opinions within my own doublet. on the contrary, while in public service especially, I have thought the public entitled to frankness, and intimately to know whom they employed.

PoC (DLC). Published in PTJRS, 10:220–8.
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