[343] Hay to Jefferson, Sept. 1, 1807; Jefferson MSS. [344] Jefferson to Hay, Sept. 4, 1807; Works, v. 187. Cf. Jefferson MSS. [345] Hay to Jefferson, Oct. 15, 1807; Jefferson MSS. Transcriber’s Notes: 1. Obvious printers’, punctuation and spelling errors have been corrected silently. 2. Some hyphenated and non-hyphenated versions of the same words have been retained as in the original. 3. Where hyphenation is in doubt, it has been retained as in the original. 4. Italics are shown as _xxx_.