1From Thomas Jefferson to Henry Remsen, [10?] August 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
. At foot of text is a label indicating that this letter may have been mounted on the back of a Gilbert Stuart portrait of TJ in the Walker Art Building of Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine. Inquiries at Bowdoin College, however, have not substantiated this conjecture.
2Thomas Jefferson’s Memorandum on James Bowdoin’s Letter, 18 September 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
, and sizable donations of land and money to Bowdoin College in
3Thomas Jefferson to Sarah Bowdoin (Dearborn), 24 June 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
, and left bequests to that and other charities, as well as funds to establish a French professorship at Bowdoin College
4Thomas Jefferson to Sarah Bowdoin (Dearborn), 4 February 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
...An Eulogy, illustrative of the life, and commemorative of the beneficence of the late Hon. James Bowdoin, Esquire, with notices of his family; Pronounced in Brunswick, (Maine) at the request of the Trustees and Overseers of Bowdoin College, on the Annual Commencement, Sept. 2d, 1812
5Thomas Jefferson to Ashur Ware, 22 August 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
served as a trustee of Bowdoin College, 1820–44, and was a founder in 1826 of the