December 9th, 1915
Received by:James Padgett.
Washington D.C.
I am a stranger but I want to say just a word as I am so interested in the work that you have before you to do. You certainly are a favored man by having been selected to do this work. It is a stupendous work and one which is of the greatest vital importance to mankind and to the destiny of mortals.
I will not write longer at this time, but would like to come again, if agreeable, and write.
Yes, I am a lover of God, and I live in the first Celestial Sphere, and, as you know, am a redeemed child of God and immortal.
I will now say with all love - good-night.
Thomas Jefferson