1Thomas Jefferson to William Darby, 22 June 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you, Sir, for the copy of your Description of Louisiana which you have been so kind as to send me . it arrives in the moment of my departure on a journey of considerable absence. I shall avail myself of the first moments of leisure after my return to read it, & doubt not I shall recieve from it both pleasure and information. the labors of an oppressive correspondence reduce almost to...
2William Darby to Thomas Jefferson, 12 June 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Being uncertain whether you have received a Copy of my Map and Statistical tracts of Louisiana, I am under considerable embarrassment in addressing, to you, this note. From your character, as the head of the Literature of your country, I should deem no apology necessary in soliciting your opinion of a work, upon a country towards the incorporation of which, into the U.S. your personal...