1Anthony Dey to Thomas Jefferson, 20 November 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
Altho’ you have retired from public life, yet I have supposed, the great interests of our Country are very near your heart & that you would be gratified with hearing of the success of American Agriculture—& the native genius of our Country men in Mechanism— under those impressions I have taken the liberty of enclosing you a Sample of flax— which the plant of which grew upon my farm in New...