James Mease to Thomas Jefferson, 27 July 1814
From James Mease
Philada July 27th 1814.
Dear Sir
I am much obliged by your history of the Robinson Apple; I read it at the last Stated meeting of the Agric. Soc: on the 12th inst and regret that your absence prevented my receiving it at a more early date, as I wished to insert it in the third vol: of the memoirs of the Soc: now publishing. I fear the number of papers is complete, for it, but should it be possible, I will insert it. The knowledge of the apple should be spread extensively: Mr Cox of Burlington procured Some grafts, and has now the apples on his farm.—
I have the pleasure to send you a printed specification of the patent of Janes for his newly invented loom which is now in operation in this City. I visited the manufactory established by the person who has bought the right of this State, and of those to the south; and was much gratified:—He Says a loom will Cost about $50.—We may Say with respect to the loom what the French Soc: of Agric. said of your plough,—America Received the loom from Europe, and returned it perfected.—
James Mease
RC (DLC); at foot of text: “Tho. Jefferson Monticello”; endorsed by TJ as received 3 Aug. 1814 and so recorded in SJL. Enclosed in TJ to Thomas Ritchie, 15 Aug. 1814, and Ritchie to TJ, 9 Oct. 1814. Extract, consisting of second paragraph except for the sentence giving the cost, printed in Richmond Enquirer, 20 Aug. 1814. Enclosure not found.
TJ gave his history of the robinson apple in his 29 June 1814 letter to Mease.
Index Entries
- apples; Taliaferro (Robinson) search
- Coxe, William; as orchardist search
- food; apples search
- Janes, Walter; loom of search
- looms search
- Mease, James; and W. Janes’s loom search
- Mease, James; letters from search
- Mease, James; on apples search
- Memoirs of the Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture search
- Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture; Memoirs search
- plows.; TJ’s moldboard search
- Société d’agriculture du département de la Seine; and moldboard plows search
- Taliaferro apple (Robinson apple) search