1From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Rogers, 14 February 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
your letter of Nov. 20. being in the box with the Columbian coffee did not come to hand till the 7 th inst. I thank you for the specimens sent me , and as you have requested my opn of it, duty to you as well as to myself requires that it should be given with truth and candor. the coffee bean, from it’s mild, and smooth, bitter, it’s essential oil & the aroma that gives it is become the...
2From John Adams to Edmund Rogers, 5 April 1824 (Adams Papers)
I have received your kind latter of November 20th. and with the handsom present, of your Coloumbian Coffee samples of which I have used in my family and sent as presents to the Neighbouring shops—we find it a comfortable beverage as we do the Columbian Whiskey which they advertice and sell— We have the Philosophey of Rhetoric the Philosophy of Grammer—and the Philosophy of the human mind, and...