Dear President Jefferson and the United States Congress: I have some feelings, agreeing with your ideas about the expedition headed by Meriwether Lewis, that I feel I need to share with The United States Congress. I have read some of the journal entries written by some of the men that are currently on this expedition. My main message is: You men should be proud of your president, his Captain, Lewis, and Lewis’s co-leader, Clark. They have done many wonderful jobs with very little strays from the instructions Laid out in President Thomas Jefferson’s Letter of Instructions to Captain Meriwether Lewis....
hair. This shows that there must be an ocean somewhere. A man by the name of Biddle, who is along on the expedition writes “Here he The Indian chief was seated on a white robe; and the chief immediately tied in his hair six small shells…” This is proof that these men must know someone from the ocean.

I believe that these men should receive credit for their wonderful job. They have done many a wonderful thing, and should be saluted for their efforts and many successes of this trip that has yet to even be completed.

Signed sincerely,