1To Thomas Jefferson from William Lyman, 11 July 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I not only recollect your particular enquiries relative to the latest or most improved Copying Machine or mode of Manifold writing The last time I was at Washington and had the Honour of my personal respects to you, but also readily conceive the great advantages thereof especially in Important Public Stations requiring both dispatch and accuracy and even sometimes privacy in the transaction of...
2To Thomas Jefferson from William Lyman, 21 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I take this occasion by the Union, one of our Dispatch vessels now here, and destined for the United States to acknowledge the honour of your Letter of the 30th. of April last. This proof of your esteem and confidence, together with those wherewith I have been heretofore honoured, inspired as they ought not only the most grateful sensations, which in a private view might be deemed a suitable...