1From Thomas Jefferson to David Hosack, 24 March 1826 (Jefferson Papers)
My grandson Th: J.R. the bearer of this letter, on a Journey to the North will probably pass some few days in N. York. your former kindnesses have made it almost a duty in my connections to present their respects to you when passing thro’ your city . he is, in himself indeed personally and truly worthy of that honor, but the motive of permission on your part can only be that the tree we have...
2From 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.
3From Thomas Jefferson to David Hosack, 9 January 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieve with due thankfulness the proof which your letter conveys of the mark of attention shewn me by the N. York horticultural society by electing me an honorary member of their society. I love the art, but age has taken from me the power of proving it by any services I can render them in return for the honor done me. with my best wishes for their success and the expressions of my thanks...
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, 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...
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...
8From Thomas Jefferson to David Hosack, 12 May 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 6 th is recieved, with the two volumes you were so kind as to send me, for which be pleased to accept my thanks. with respect to mr Audrain, his mathematical talents are well known to be of the first grade of that science in the US. and such as any seminary might be proud to have in it’s employ. but we are committed beyond retraction. the Visitors of our University, at their...
9From Thomas Jefferson to David Hosack, 23 August 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
This letter will be handed to you by mr Thomas M. Randolph jun r brother of the gentleman of that name, late Governor of this state and a member of my family, who was so much distinguished by your kindness on a visit to New York some time ago. of his family and standing with us therefore I need say nothing. but with truth and equal propriety I may add assurances of the virtues of his...
10Thomas 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...
11Thomas 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...
12Thomas 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...
13From Thomas Jefferson to David Hosack, 26 October 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer of this letter is mr Randolph, late Governor of this state, and my son in law. proposing to pass a few days of business in New York, and being a stranger there, he naturally wishes to be made known to some of it’s prominent characters, and to no one with more desire than to yourself. altho’ personal acquaintance may not authorise my claiming an introduction for him to you, yet the...
14Thomas 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...
15Thomas Jefferson to David Hosack, 12 July 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you, dear Sir, for the 2 d edition of the biography of D r Williamson . I suppose we have now the full information as to the letters of Hutchinson E t c S r John Temple ’s knolege of the offices, and their character might be necessary to suggest to D r
16Thomas 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...