1To Thomas Jefferson from Henry Roi, 15 February 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Without any recommendation of Individual, I take the freedom to apply to the friend of Mankind.! with great sorrow I have learned your painfull accident, but with great Joy your recovering from it. Your great Age ought to liberate you of a farther care of the others. But remarking in the public Prints that, notwithstanding your many past & glorious Efforts for the happiness of humanity, you...
2Henry Roi: Extract of a System, or a new order of things, 15 Feb 1823, 15 February 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Extract of A new system, or a new order of things, delightful Dreams if ever any were! An Essay. Man seems to have been set upon Earth to cultivate the Plan of his Creator; to be his Second, to perfectione the producer of Nature for his necessairy maintenance & comfort. Therefore it is infered, that superfluity, unnecessairys, luxury, have never been intended to be cultivated, as being looser...