1To Thomas Jefferson from George Skene Keith, 22 June 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I take the Liberty of sending your Excellency two political pamphlets, one of them a Prize Dissertation on the Excellence of the British Constitution, the other, a particular examination of the last French Constitution—The two contain as many examples as I could easily get introduced—of the different beauties or defects both of ancient and modern governments— I have been induced to give your...
2To Thomas Jefferson from George Skene Keith, 1 July 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
“Keith hall,” Scotland, 1 July 1791 . He is sending “a small publication” which he hopes TJ will accept, concerning “an universal Equalization of Weights Measures and Coins. And if I thought any man in America had bestowed more Labour on this than I have done I should not have given you this trouble.” As for TJ’s proposed rod pendulum vibrating seconds as the standard, he surely knows that...
3To George Washington from George Skene Keith, 1 July 1791 (Washington Papers)
A Clergyman of the Church of Scotland takes the Liberty of writing your Excellency on a subject interesting to mankind—and begs you will accept of the small publication which accompanies this Letter—The subject is at present under discussion in the Assembly of the United States: and the Author would not have troubled your Excellency, if he had not bestowed more labour on that subject than he...
4To George Washington from George Skene Keith, 19 November 1792 (Washington Papers)
I had the Honour of your Excellencys Letter of the 22d of June, which I shall carefully preserve for the sake of the subscription. I received at the same time your Secretary’s Letter of the 7th of May; both Letters bearing the Edinburgh Post mark of the 12th of September. The best return I can make for the distinguishing honour of a Letter from your own Hand is [t]o send you some information...
5To George Washington from George Skene Keith, 14 January 1792 (Washington Papers)
I take the Liberty of writing your Excellency, which I hope you will excuse, and of sending you a few Copies of a Pamphlet on Weights, Measures and Coins of which I beg your acceptance. I write to you as a man of Mind, not as a man of Rank. But I should not have troubled you with this Letter, if the Treatise which accompanies it were not the work of much labour, and considered as the best...