1Thomas Jefferson to Ezra Stiles Ely, 25 June 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor Sir, of the 14 th has been duly recieved, and with it the book you were so kind as to forward to me. for this mark of attention be pleased to accept my thanks. the science of the human mind is curious, but it is one on which I have not indulged myself in much speculation. the times in which I have lived, and the scenes in which I have been engaged, have required me to keep the mind...
2Ezra Stiles Ely to Thomas Jefferson, 14 June 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Permit a young Philosopher, to present a veteran with a copy of his “Conversations on the Science of the Human Mind.” If you have leisure to read the little book, which I send you through the mail, I hope it will afford you some philosophical recreation. Were you not continually plagued with such things, I should solicit the expression of your opinion upon it. Possibly it may be of some use,...