1From Thomas Jefferson to David Ramsay, 26 January 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
The letter I did myself the honour of writing you on the 12th of Oct. will have informed you what I had ultimately done on the subject of your book. Your’s of Dec. 10. is just received. I am very sorry to find that your printer is so much deceived as to the parts of the work which have come to my hands. They are exactly as follows. Vol. 1. pa. 1. - 328. 329 - to the end. Vol. 2. pa. v. - xx....
2From Thomas Jefferson to David Ramsay, 27 January 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
Since writing my letter of yesterday a person, whom I am very desirous of obliging , has asked me to procure from South Carolina some plants of the Magnolia grandiflora, sometimes called altissima, and some seeds of the Dionaea muscipula. If you can be instrumental in procuring them you will gratify me much. I have heard there is one Watson at Charles town who furnishes these articles well. I...