1Thomas Jefferson to Robert Gillespie, 3 August 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of June 10 . has come to hand after a long passage. no one however is less qualified than myself to judge of the merits of your invention of the Log still. for altho’ not unacquainted with the general theory of distillation, yet I never had occasion to examine the structure even of the common still. but I do not understand how you can have been refused a patent whether the invention...
2Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 3 August 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of July 25. was recieved on the 31 st . I learn by it with extreme concern that you have in contemplation the sale of the lands here. I had ever fondly hoped for your return to our society when you should have run out your career of public usefulness. perhaps however my age should relieve me from the pain of such long prospects. the survey of mr Short’s land which you saw in my hand...