1To Thomas Jefferson from James W. Wallace, 16 June 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I send you an Indian Pipe found last summer in Kentucky with a petrified fish. the Fish should have accompanied the pipe but is unfortunately broken. with best wishes for your health and happiness. I am Sir respectfully &c RC ( DLC ); undated; at head of text: “Mr Jefferson”; endorsed by TJ as received 16 June 1804 and so recorded in SJL . James Westwood Wallace (ca. 1769-1838), a member of...
2From Thomas Jefferson to James W. Wallace, 17 June 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Th Jefferson returns his thanks to Doctr. Wallace for the Indian pipe he has been so kind as to send him, & which he recieved in safety. it is a handsome specimen of the Indian arts: and the stone of which it is made is also singular. he tenders him his salutations and assurances of esteem & respect. PoC ( DLC ); endorsed by TJ.
3From Thomas Jefferson to Gustavus B. Horner, 15 May 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I found here a small remnant of the Benni seed I had sent on to be sown, which enables me to fulfill my promise to you. open light furrows with a plough, 3 ½ or 4 f. apart, drop a very few seed every 12. inches along the furrow. when up, thin them to a single plant at each 12. inches, and when advanced in growth draw a little earth to the roots. they need little culture. when the leaves fall...
4From Thomas Jefferson to James Westwood Wallace, 13 July 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Having recieved from the Havanna a box of very fine segars I have sent them to you. I could not dispose of them more to my own liking, and I hope they will be to yours. I put them yesterday into the care of a Dr. Thornton, a young gentleman of Culpeper, who promised to place them in the care of mr Benson at Fredericksburg where the box, being addressed to you, will be delivered to your order....
5To Thomas Jefferson from James Westwood Wallace, 20 October 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
I postponed answering your favor of June, untill I received the sigars which you friendly sent: they are truly very fine, and thankfully received. Your wild Geese, are in high order. The Indiginous flowers, which I saved for you, died; in the dryness of our Summer. With the Geese be pleased to accept a pair of Summer Ducks, hatched, and raised by a hen, they are very gentle, and I hope will...
6From Thomas Jefferson to James Westwood Wallace, 28 February 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
You were so kind as to procure for me a pair of wild geese & a pair of Summer ducks, & to say you could give me some plants, towit Balsam Capivitrae, Sun briar, Mammoth apple &c. this will be delivered you by the person who comes on with my waggon to remove my effects from this place. he will pass Fauquier C.H. again on his way back about the 10th. or 11th. of March, and as his caravan will be...
7James W. Wallace to Thomas Jefferson, 10 October 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
A few days since passing by Elk Run Church , a Gentleman presented me with a very large tooth, several having been found together about four feet below the Surface of the Earth . You will at once see how widely it differs from the tooth of the mammoth, by the impressions which it makes on the enclosed papers. the post master thinks it cannot be sent by the mail, or I would enclose it to you....
8Thomas Jefferson to James W. Wallace, 30 October 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 10 th has been peculiarly acceptable after so long a pause of communication between us. it brought to me also the renewed assurance of your recollection in the renewal of attention to my little collection of curiosities. it happens that when I employed persons to explore the big bone lick for me, a number of the teeth you describe were found. I sent some of them to the...
9James W. Wallace to Thomas Jefferson, 11 January 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Yours of October last gave me the first Knowledge of an American species of Elephant. I find teeth similar to those found in Fauquier , in the possession of the Philosophical Society , as well as in M r Peale s Museum. I am now attending my last & tenth course of Lectures and dissections , and shall remain here untill March. if I can render you in any way any Service, do call on me, you can’t...
10Thomas Jefferson to James W. Wallace, 29 May [1818] (Jefferson Papers)
On the Suddenness of the request in the moment of your departure for a keep- sake in the style of Gen l Washington ’s & General Braddock ’s razors, I could not at once recollect any thing exactly suitable. it has since occurred that the travelling razor case which I have been in the habit of using, might be a deposit for those razors, and make a compact thing of the whole, and as it is light I...