1To Thomas Jefferson from Charles François d’Anmours, 29 April 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
Baltimore, 29 Apr. 1791 . Introducing and recommending to TJ’s “special protection” M. Pierre Zacharie of Lyons, an “ingenious mechanician of a family that has produced many men of merit in the mechanical branch of mathematicks, and who have received … several rewards and privileges.” He is the inventor of a machine to clean harbors, found on examination there to be superior to a number of...
2To Thomas Jefferson from D’Anmours, 24 April 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
Full of confidence in the marks of friendship I allways received from you, I beg leave to introduce to the honour of your acquaintance, M. Auguette, a Captain of dragoons in the regiment de la Reine , of the french army. He travels this continent with a view to add to a Stock of knowledge which study and former voyages on the other have rendered more than Sufficient to make him a very...