1To Thomas Jefferson from David Hosack, 10 September 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Knowing your attachment to science and the interest you feel on the progress of it in the united states, I take the liberty of enclosing to you a Catalogue of plants which I have been enabled to collect as the beginning of a Botanic garden— you will readily perceive that my intention in this little publication is merely to announce the nature of the Institution and to facilitate my...
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.
3Thomas 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...
4Thomas 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...
5David Hosack to Thomas Jefferson, 1 August 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Accept my thanks for your favour of the 17 th July with the seeds accompanying it—I am also indebted to you for a former favour of the Same nature—the seeds are in good order but it is too late to sow them in the present season—with the aid of manganese most of them will probably grow the next year—you know that this stimulus will excite the smallest remains of the vital principle which seeds...
6Thomas 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...
7Thomas 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...
8David Hosack to Thomas Jefferson, 12 October 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I am unwilling to intrude upon your retirement or to give you trouble in calling your attention to the subject of this note but I am persuaded there is no other person to whom I can apply for the information I ask with the same prospect of obtaining it as yourself— I am appointed by the New york Historical Society to deliver an Eulogium commemorative of the character & Literary services of our...
9Thomas 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...
10Thomas 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...