1Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Waterhouse, 20 July 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you, dear Sir, for the new Robinson Crusoe you have been so good as to send me . the name of it’s hero, like that of the old, merits to be known as should that also of the new Defoe . I have read it with avidity, for a more attaching narrative I have not met with; and it may be truly said of the whole edifice, that the bricks and the mortar are worthy of each other, and promise to be a...
2Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Waterhouse, 9 March 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you for the book you have been so kind as to send me. it puts a dry subject into a pleasant dress; and explaining the principles of vegetation as well as of Botany, it will be a better preparation to a student than the elementary books generally are. that it’s sale should have succeeded only South of Connecticut proves two things; one which I have long observed, that the scale of...
3Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Waterhouse, 13 October 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
I was highly gratified with the receipt of your letter of Sep. 1. by Gen l and mrs Dearborne ; and by the evidence it furnished me of your bearing up with firmness and perseverance against your the persecutions of your enemies, religious, political and professional. these last I suppose have not yet forgiven you the introduction of vaccination, and annihilation of the great variolous field of...