1Thomas Jefferson to John Adlum, 7 October 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
While I lived in Washington , a member of Congress from your state (I do not recollect which) presented me with two bottles of wine made by you, one of which, of Madeira colour, he said was entirely factitious, the other, a dark red wine was made from a wild or native grape, called in Maryland the Fox grape, but very different from what is called by that name in Virginia . this was a very fine...
2Thomas Jefferson to Isaac Riley, 7 October 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your favor of Sep. 29. proposing to publish a new edition of the Notes on Virginia , and asking for such additions as I might wish to make. I have long intended to prepare an enlarged edition of that work; with such additions & corrections as information & experience might enable me to make: and I have been laying by materials from time to time, as they occurred, for that...