My distance from the seat of government1 and ignorance of safe conveyances to Paris have occasioned me to be late in acknoleging your favor of Oct: 27. that of Jan. 19. is lately recieved. with the former came the Memoires d’Agriculture, the map of M. Komarzewski,2 and with the latter the seeds from the national garden. will you do me the favor to make my just acknolegements to those to whom they are due for these favors. mr Botta’s work is not yet recieved, but doubtless will be soon. I inclose a letter for him, & another for M. Jullien l’ainè, one for Genl Kosciuzko, & one from the A. Phil. society with their acknolegements for what they recieved from you. at the request of mr Wood, a very able mathematician, professor of an academy in Richmond I trouble you with letters from him to several of the literati of France covering a summary account [of]3 a new theory of his on the diurnal motion of the earth, deduced from the cycloidal motion of every point on it’s surface. he is learned as a mathematician, and this speculation will be not unacceptable to his mathematical readers. will you be so good as to distribute his letters. I also send 4. copies of the work itself, one of which I ask you to accept of, and to give in my name the other three to Messrs Dupont, Humboldt & Callet, with the expressions of esteem & respect I entertain for them. mr Callet’s work was recieved and with great thankfulness. I send these things through the department of state, that the charge of postage may not be incurred by yourself in addition to the other trouble they will give you, and which your past goodness alone has encouraged me to burthen you with. the public papers have made us expect Genl Armstrong’s arrival daily. I beg you to accept my apologies for these abuses of your kind disposition, & the assurances of my best wishes for your welfare & great esteem & respect

Th: Jefferson