1From Thomas Jefferson to N. Herbemont, 3 November 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you, Sir, for the pamphlet you have been so kind as to send me. I have long earnestly wished for the introduction of the Olive into S. Carolina and Georgia. while in France I procured for the Agricultural society of Charleston a number of the plants of the genuine olive of Aix, from which the finest oil in the world is made. this was 35. years ago; but I learn that some of these trees...