1To Thomas Jefferson from Augustus B. Woodward, 20 October 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
In the volume of the encyclopédie, which the president was so kind as to lend me, I find a reference to a figure which is not contained in the same volume. I conclude therefore the plates are in a separate volume. The reference is (fig. Astron. 171.). If the president can conveniently turn to this figure I will be obliged to him to permit the bearer to bring the volume containing it. I...
2To Thomas Jefferson from Augustus B. Woodward, 25 August 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the happiness to transmit to the president, by mister digges, a paper entitled “memoir addressed to the president of the united states on the colonization of louisiana,” unaccompanied by my signature. Without a comparison of sentiments, the views of different minds are sometimes so dissimilar on the same subject, and so extremely divergent, that it is not without considerable diffidence...