1To John Adams from Henry R. Schoolcraft, 5 January 1822 (Adams Papers)
Henry R. Schoolcraft has the honor, with this note, to present to John Adams Esqr., the inclosed geological memoir, which he begs may accepted with the respectful compliments of the author. MHi : Adams Papers.
2To James Madison from Henry R. Schoolcraft, 5 January 1822 (Madison Papers)
Henry R. Schoolcraft has the honor of presenting to James Madison Esqr., the inclosed geological memoir, which he begs will be accepted with the respectful compliments of the author. RC ( DLC ). Docketed by JM. Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1793–1864) was a geologist and later an ethnologist who wrote voluminously about his travels in Missouri, Arkansas, and the Great Lakes region and the Indians he...
3Henry R. Schoolcraft to Thomas Jefferson, 5 January 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
Henry R. Schoolcraft presents his respectful compliments to Thomas Jefferson Esqr., and solicits the honor of his acceptance of the accompanying memoir . RC ( CSmH: JF-BA ); dateline at foot of text; addressed: “ Thomas Jefferson Esqr. Virginia ”; endorsed by TJ as received 17 Jan. 1822 and so recorded in SJL . Enclosure: Schoolcraft , A Memoir, on the Geological Position of a Fossil Tree,...
4From James Madison to Henry R. Schoolcraft, 22 January 1822 (Madison Papers)
I have received the copy of your Memoir on the fossil Tree, which you politely forwarded. Of the decisive bearing of this phenomenon on important questions in Geology, I rely more on your judgment than my own. The present is a very inquisitive age, and its researches of late have been ardently directed to the primitive composition and structure of our Globe, as far as it has been penetrated,...
5Thomas Jefferson to Henry R. Schoolcraft, 26 January 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
ThJ Th: Jefferson returns his thanks to mr Schoolcraft for the Memorial he has been so kind as to send him on the fossil tree of the river des Plaines . it is a valuable element towards the knolege we wish to obtain of the crust of the globe we inhabit: and it’s crust alone is immediately interesting to us. we are only to guard against drawing our conclusions deeper than we dig. mr Schoolcraft...
6James Madison to Henry R. Schoolcraft, 23 October 1830 (Madison Papers)
J. Madison with his respects to Mr. Schoolcraft, thanks him for the copy of his valuable discourse before "the Historical Socty of Michigan". To the seasonable exhortation which it gives to others, it adds an example which may be advantageously followed. RC ( DLC : Papers of Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, box 4); draft (DLC) .