"my essay in Architecture has been so much subordinated to the law of convenience, & affected also by the circumstance of change in the original design, that it is liable to some unfavorable & just criticisms." - Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Henry Latrobe, Monticello, 10 October 1809^[1]

Footnotes

1. ↑ PTJ:RS 1:595. Polygraph copy at the Library of Congress.