Thomas Jefferson to Nicholas Biddle, 20 February 1822
To Nicholas Biddle
Monticello Feb. 20. 22.
Th: Jefferson returns thanks to mr Biddle for his very1 able and instructive address to an Agricultural audience, and is pleased to see the stores of science so happily blended with practice. it will surely produce a salutary excitement among our farmers and especially at a moment when the habitual Cannibalism of Europe promises a demand2 for bread with their blood.
he salutes mr Biddle with assurances of his highest esteem & respect.
RC (Andalusia Foundation, Andalusia, Pa.; photocopy in DNT); dateline at foot of text; addressed: “Nicholas Biddle esquire Andalusia. Pensylvania”; franked; postmarked Milton, 23 Feb. Dft (DLC); on verso of RC of Biddle to TJ, 9 Feb. 1822.
1. Word interlined in Dft.
2. Word interlined in Dft in place of “call.”
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