From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Miller, 29 February 1804
To Samuel Miller
Feb. 29. 04
Th: Jefferson returns his thanks to the revd mr Miller for the copy of his Retrospect of the 18th. century which he has been so kind as to send him, and shall with pleasure avail himself of his first leisure to read it. he salutes him with respect & friendship.
RC (NjP: Samuel Miller Papers); addressed: “The revd. Samuel Miller New York”; franked; postmarked Washington. PrC (DLC).
to send him: Miller to TJ, 20 Feb., received from New York on 24 Feb., is recorded in SJL but has not been found. Miller sent a copy of A Brief Retrospect of the Eighteenth Century. Part First; in Two Volumes: Containing a Sketch of the Revolutions and Improvements in Science, Arts, and Literature, During that Period, which was printed by T. and J. Swords in New York in 1803 and included several references about TJ. Miller communicated with the president in June 1801 about the work, for which TJ had lent him some materials. Miller had also previously sent TJ some of his other publications ( No. 4727; Vol. 27:26; Vol. 31:370; Vol. 34:410-12).