11From Thomas Jefferson to Jonathan Shoemaker, 18 April 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I arrived here on the 11th. and found that the 2d. pair of stones had been in readiness to go for a considerable time except for the want of a day or two’s work on the spindle by Stewart. this I had done immediately & sent it over two days ago. tho’ I have been here a week I have not had time to go to the mill having a great deal of planting to do, & the season having burst out upon us very...