1José Corrêa da Serra to Thomas Jefferson, 22 February 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Derby a well known gentleman of Boston , has told me how he desired to pay a visit to Virginia , and to have the honor of being presented to you. Though his known caracter be a competent passport every where, still he is persuaded that decency requires that he be presented by some one of your acquaintances, and wishes me to perform this function. I am very glad to have this occasion of...
2José Corrêa da Serra to Thomas Jefferson, 16 June 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your kind Letter of the 5 of this month reached me in due time, and i must entreat your forgiveness for not answering it sooner, neither my health, nor the hurry to finish the botanical course in which i was engaged without defrauding my heare r s of any of the promised Lectures have given me a moment’s rest. Under severe rhumatic pains, i have Lectured almost every day in the afternoon, and...
3José Corrêa da Serra to Thomas Jefferson, 12 May 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your Letter from Poplar forest reached my hands Last week, and with it i am enabled to follow with more cognizance the research of Capt. Lewis ’s papers. The only part which i had recovered i had forwarded to you by your excellent grand daughter when she was here. Colonel Jones of the Guards who is going to Kentucky to dispose of his lands there, will present this to you. He wishes to have the...
4José Corrêa da Serra to Thomas Jefferson, 29 March 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
At Last M rs Barton has sent me a Little morocco bound volume , part of Capt. Lewis journal containing his observations from April 9 of 1805 to February 17 1806 , and the meteorológical observ. for July August Sp September . 1805, together with the drawing of a quadruped which he calls the Fisher . As the chaos of His Library begins to clear, by the separation of printed books which are sold...
5José Corrêa da Serra to Thomas Jefferson, 12 February 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I have found at my return in Philadelphia near a month ago, your kind letter for which i would have immediately returned my most grateful thanks, if it did not contain two articles to which it was my duty to answer, viz. the cements for cisterns, and the papers of Captain Lewis . As to the first, the books containing the prescriptions were not at hand, and i could attain them with some...
6José Corrêa da Serra to Thomas Jefferson, 9 December 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I am in Philadelphia returned again to my old train of Life, that is reading and walking. From the inclosed you will see that i have not forgotten the cement for your cisterns. That alone would have occasioned this Letter, but i have matter of much more importance to communicate to you. The Last arrivals have brought english and french papers, pamphlets and Letters which i wish i could put...
7José Corrêa da Serra’s Memorandum to Thomas Jefferson on Religious Education, [after 30 September 1814] (Jefferson Papers)
I have read with attention and ruminated your plan of school , and as you are above compliments i will only tell you that i would have been proud of having planned it, so much i find it proportionate to the actual degree of improvement of human mind, and to the present state of your nation. differ nevertheless in one point from you, which is the Theological branch, not for the reasons of D r...
8José Corrêa da Serra to Thomas Jefferson, 20 September 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
After having visited your western states, and attempted in vain to pass through the mountains directly from Lexington (Ky) to Monticello , i have been obliged to come back to Pittsburgh and to this place, from whence as soon as i receive an answer from Philadelphia , that is to say in two or three days i will proceed to pay my respects to you. In the mean time i address to you these few Lines,...
9José Corrêa da Serra to Thomas Jefferson, 10 April 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Short tells me that you intend to give me an invitation to visit you at Monticello ; for which i give you my sincere thanks, because no moments of Life can i consider more precious than those i would pass in your company. In the summer or in the fall i will attempt to profit of your Kindness. In the mean time as i am determined to visit Kentucky and the Ohio , an excursion which i presume...
10José Corrêa da Serra to Thomas Jefferson, 6 September 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Together with this Letter i forward to you by the post office the book of Senator Fossombroni . The 1 st part of the book is wholly antiquarian, and though highly curious to Italian readers, is of Little interest to any other; the second part will give you an idea of that ingenious and experimented practice. If it was judged proper to familiarize the Americans with it then it would be...