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To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Stone, 10 April 1804

From Thomas Stone

Rue des 4t. fils No 27. Paris april 10th: 1804

Sir

I beg you will do me the Honor of accepting the inclosed Publications, I am emboldened to take this Liberty from the great attention you give to the Science of Agriculture, in the Practice of which, I have devoted the most considerable part of my Life; I most heartily wish you Health to pursue the objects, which so happily for your Country, you have adopted.

I have the Honor to be Sir, Your most devoted & very Humble Sert

Thos Stone

RC (MHi); endorsed by TJ as received 9 Aug. Enclosures were probably: (1) Thomas Stone, General View of the Agriculture in the County of Huntingdon (London, 1793; Sowerby, description begins E. Millicent Sowerby, comp., Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, Washington, D.C., 1952-59, 5 vols. description ends No. 761). (2) Thomas Stone, A Letter to the Right Honourable Lord Somerville … Late President of the Board of Agriculture, with a View to Shew the Inutility of the Plans and Researches of That Institution … By a Society of Practical Farmers (London, 1800; Sowerby, description begins E. Millicent Sowerby, comp., Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, Washington, D.C., 1952-59, 5 vols. description ends No. 720).

Thomas Stone (d. 1815) was an English land surveyor and agricultural promoter. As a critic and contemporary of Arthur Young, Stone argued strongly in favor of the enclosure movement (British Farmer’s Magazine, new ser., 23 [London, 1853], 402; John G. Gazley, The Life of Arthur Young, 1741-1820 [Philadelphia, 1973], 421-4).

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    “To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Stone, 10 April 1804,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-43-02-0180. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 43, 11 March–30 June 1804, ed. James P. McClure. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017, p. 204.]

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