1Thomas Jefferson to William James Macneven, 12 January 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you, Sir, for the copy of Brande ’s Manual of Chemistry which you have been so kind as to send me , improved by your valuable notes and amendments. without memory enough now for Sciences of fact I shall find the value of this work in occasional references, and still more in contemplating it as a mark of your goodness and attention, and as furnishing me with an occasion of assuring you...
2From Thomas Jefferson to William James Macneven, 15 August 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson returns his thanks to mr MacNeven for the copy he has been so kind as to send him of his Pieces of Irish history. it is a record of documents & facts which interested all the feelings of humanity while they were passing, and stand in dreadful account against the perpetrators. in this the United states may see what would have been their history, had they continued under the same...