1From Thomas Jefferson to David Hosack, 18 September 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Hosack & his thanks for the catalogue of his plants. should he have it in his power to be useful to his institution at any time he shall embrace the occasion with that pleasure which attends every aid given to the promotion of science. MHi : Coolidge Collection.
2Thomas Jefferson to David Hosack, 3 May 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to D r Hosack and his thanks for his very instructive pamphlet on yellow fever. without competence to decide the question which ha s so much divided the Medical faculty here, Whether that fever is produced by an atmosphere specially vitiated solely or with the aid of infection from a diseased body, in other word s whether it originates here, or is...
3Thomas Jefferson to David Hosack, 13 July 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Uninformed of the persons particularly connected with the Botanical garden of N.Y. I hope I shall be pardoned for this address to yourself. I have just recieved from my antient friend Thouin , director of the king’s garden at Paris a packet of seeds selected by him as foreign to the US. they are of the last year’s gathering, but he informs me that if they arrive (as they have done) too late to...
4Thomas Jefferson to David Hosack, 19 January 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you, Sir, for the books you have been so kind as to send me. they will afford me amusement as well as instruction. from a general view I have taken of Thomas’s work , it appears, with your aid, to be valuable for family use. without science in Medecine, I am yet fond of it’s philosophical speculations. with these I observe your Medical Register mingles disquisitions in all it’s kindred...
5Thomas Jefferson to David Hosack, 18 February 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved some time ago from M. Thouin , Director of the Botanical or King’s garden at Paris , a box containing an assortment of seeds, Non-American, and therefore presumably acceptable to the American botanist. finding it more and more necessary to abridge the catalogue of my cares, this is among that which I have struck from it. I have therefore this day sent t he box to Richmond to the...
6Thomas Jefferson to David Hosack, [20 October 1819] (Jefferson Papers)
the memoir in the Philosophical Transactions, on the change of climate in America , I have ever considered as a remarkably ingenious, sound, and satisfactory piece of philosophy. We served together in congress , at Annapolis , during the winter of 1783 and 4; there I found him a very useful member, of an acute mind, attentive to business, and of an high degree of erudition. Undated extracts...
7Thomas Jefferson to David Hosack, 5 March 1821 (first letter) (Jefferson Papers)
At the request of mr Coffee I formerly took the liberty of putting a letter to him under the protection of your cover, having occasion to make him again a remittance of 40.D. for a like object with the former, and not knowing certainly that he is at N. York , I take the same liberty again. the remittance being to be made by my correspondent in Richmond I pass this letter thro’ his hands that...
8Thomas Jefferson to David Hosack, 5 March 1821 (second letter) (Jefferson Papers)
In a letter to you of this day’s date, sent viâ Richmond , I took the liberty of desiring my correspond t there to inclose one to mr Coffee containing a remittance to him. that now inclosed is to inform him of it’s application. not knowing certainly that he is in N. York , I am obliged to trespass on your kindness by putting them under your cover, which I pray you to pardon on the score of...
9Thomas Jefferson to David Hosack, 20 April 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I am truly ashamed of being so troublesome to you as the intermediate of my correspondence with mr Coffee , and can only plead in excuse his desire that I should do so. on the 5 th of March , not knowing whether he was in New York I took the liberty of putting under the protection of your cover a letter to him asking a supply of 4. casks of Roman cement, and at the same time desired my...
10Thomas Jefferson to David Hosack, 11 May 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Apr. 28. is recieved, and the letters and papers it covered are all exact and right, and I have to thank you for the trouble you have submitted to in the care of them. I owe you also my acknolegements for the copy of your Synopsis of Nosology which you have been so kind as to send me. being but a mere amateur in that department of knolege, it is only such general views which I am...