1From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Moore, 6 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday your favor of 2 d proposing to our University the purchase of a mineralogical collection. we do not propose to go in that line further than mere utility, and have already by donations such a collection as we can well proceed on. others are expected, and particularly we count on the future efforts of our own eleves to make the collection what it should be, and enable us to...
2To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Moore, 2 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Joseph bland, an officer of the Mint whose reputation as a chemist and Mineralogist is known to you, has been engaged for nearly twenty years in forming a mineralogical Cabinet. Possessing many advantages and great assiduity in this pursuit, his Collection is now probabily surpassed by very few in the United States. His specimens amount, I understand, to about 4000, are according to...
3From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Moore, 3 March 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
My memory is so entirely in default that I do not remember a single circumstance respecting the devices on our coins except that some one having proposed to put Gen l Washington’s head on them it was entirely objected to, and the head of Liberty adopted—but whether with or without the Pileus I do not remember: but surely it ought to be without it, for we are not emancipated slaves. I have...
4To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Moore, 14 February 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
It is not without hesitation and reluctance, that I prefer a request that will be the occasion of any inconvenience, to one who has acquired so high a claim to be exempted from intrusion; but I know not to whom I can address myself with the hope of obtaining information so accurate as you, I doubt not, possess, on a subject to which I now respectfully solicit your attention. The character of...
5From Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Moore, 30 September 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I believe, Sir, that neither you nor myself have done anything blameable in the transaction which is the subject of your lre of the 21 st in applying for the office in question the will of the father, the son and family in your favor was surely a full justificn for you. recieving myself a request from an antient and intimate friend to interest myself for D r Patterson the son, who was at the...
6To Thomas Jefferson from Samuel Moore, 21 September 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
It has been recently mentioned to me that on the occasion of M r Pattersons resignation of his place as Director of the Mint, a letter was addressed to you by M r T. Leiper, soliciting the influence of your name with the President in favour of his Son in Law D r Robt. Patterson as successor to his Father; and that a letter of recommendation had, conformably to his request, been addressed to M...