1To Thomas Jefferson from John V. Kean, 3 November 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
We received last night a large box of books from Mr Hilliards of which I suppose you have had some account: the books embrace almost every subject of science, Law medicine, History, Poetry &c. There came also by the same conveyance, a box of specimines of Mineralogy. Collected from various parts of Europe & the Northern States by Mr M c Lure, I believe. CSmH .