1From Thomas Jefferson to Lewis Geanty, 23 January 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved last night your favor of the 15th. sincerely a friend to science, and to the promotion of it as the only means of relieving man from the tyranny of body and mind, I should have been happy to have been instrumental to your plans for this purpose. but my duties to the General government are so numerous, that I have been constrained to leave altogether to the states, or to the...