1William Darby to Thomas Jefferson, 12 June 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Being uncertain whether you have received a Copy of my Map and Statistical tracts of Louisiana, I am under considerable embarrassment in addressing, to you, this note. From your character, as the head of the Literature of your country, I should deem no apology necessary in soliciting your opinion of a work, upon a country towards the incorporation of which, into the U.S. your personal...
2Thomas Jefferson to William Darby, 22 June 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you, Sir, for the copy of your Description of Louisiana which you have been so kind as to send me . it arrives in the moment of my departure on a journey of considerable absence. I shall avail myself of the first moments of leisure after my return to read it, & doubt not I shall recieve from it both pleasure and information. the labors of an oppressive correspondence reduce almost to...