1To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Douglas, 16 May 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I cannot dispense with troubling you with my acknowledgments for your condescension in being pleased to regard my offers of service by Mrs. Douglas. Shou’d you from any inducement honor me with your protection, I shall endeavor to be grateful; but certainly (like Dr. Johnson to the Ld: Chancellor) shall consider myself for the rest of my life “with more regard for so flattering a distinction...
2To Thomas Jefferson from Charles Douglas, 27 June 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I beg you to permit the inclosed letter to apologise for this application. I have sought to introduce the Inoculation of the Kinepox into this place, (from a conviction derived from authentic inteligence, of its importance in every consideration) by an application to Dr. Waterhouse , whom from a publication in a Newspaper, I recognised for a former acquaintance at Lectures in London; whose...