1From Thomas Jefferson to Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler, 3 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Nov. 24. is just now recieved, with the papers on the survey of the coast which you have been so kind as to send me. for these be pleased to accept my very particular thanks. in the last volume of the transactions of the A. Phil Society I had especially remarked these papers and the processes so peculiarly accurate and ingenious by which you had proposed to execute the survey of...
2From Thomas Jefferson to William Cabell Rives, 3 December 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
In answer to the enquiries in your favor of Nov. 30. I have to say that no other application to Congress is proposed but that explained in my letter to you, thro’ our delegates in both houses, with respect to the 305. D 68 paid on the former importation, I did not mean to ask a refunding of it directly. but I thought, that if, as I expected, the duties should be remitted as well on what was...