1Thomas Jefferson to John Barnes, 12 June 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
The inclosed letter, my dear friend, is too long for me to copy, and yet I wish you to know it’s contents. when therefore you have read it, be so good as to stick a wafer in it & have it delivered. perhaps indeed it would not be amiss for you to call with it yourself, as mr Poletika might wish to make some enquiry of you. as the French quotation from Gen l Kosciuzko ’s last letter to me is an...
2Thomas Jefferson to Pierre de Polética, 12 June [1819] (Jefferson Papers)
I have recieved your favor of May 27. on the subject of the property of the late Gen l Kosciuzko vested in our funds and left under my care and direction. a little before the departure of the Gen l from America in 1798. he wrote a will, all with his own hand, in which he directed that the property he should possess here at the time of his death should be laid out in the purchase of young...