1John L. E. W. Shecut to Thomas Jefferson, 13 October 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Your very obliging letter of the 25. Ult , has been received and I cannot but be grateful for the friendly interest you take for the success of my proposed Publication, as also for the advice afforded me towards applying for Some Vacancy under Government. Previous to entering on any other subject I beg leave to Say, that I exceedingly regret, the evident changes in your health as mentioned in...
2John L. E. W. Shecut to Thomas Jefferson, 11 December 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I cannot deny myself the pleasure of renewing to you the assurances of the high sense I entertain of your exalted character, your unbounded esteem for the Arts and Sciences and your Fostering regard for the Infant Literature of our happy Country. It has impell’d me to seek you in retirement, to lay before you an Essay on the late awful disease with which our City has been visited. Feeble as...
3Thomas Jefferson to John L. E. W. Shecut, 29 December 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson returns thanks to D r Shecut for the pa mphlet on Yellow fever which he has been so kind as to send him . he remarks with satisfaction the distinction observed between the fever which has always existed in ce rtain situations of our country & has been known by the name of the Strangers’ fever , because affecting them alone, and that known latterly by the name of the Yellow fever,...