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Elkanah Watson to Thomas Jefferson, 3 May 1820

From Elkanah Watson

Albany. 3 May 1820

Sir

Having terminated my Canal and agricultural Labours, I take the liberty to enclose for your acceptance a work just published comprising a historical Sketch of these objects.

I am with profound Respect

E Watson

RC (DLC); at foot of text: “Thos Jefferson Late President of the United States”; endorsed by TJ as received 11 May 1820 and so recorded in SJL. Enclosure: Watson, History of the Rise, Progress, and existing Condition of the Western Canals in the State of New-York … Together with the Rise, Progress, and existing State of Modern Agricultural Societies, On the Berkshire System (Albany, 1820; Poor, Jefferson’s Library description begins Nathaniel P. Poor, Catalogue. President Jefferson’s Library, 1829 description ends , 6 [no. 218]).

On this date Watson sent James Madison a similar letter and enclosure (Madison, Papers, Retirement Ser., 2:62).

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Elkanah Watson to Thomas Jefferson, 3 May 1820
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Watson, Elkanah
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Jefferson, Thomas
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3 May 1820

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“Elkanah Watson to Thomas Jefferson, 3 May 1820,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-15-02-0539. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 15, 1 September 1819 to 31 May 1820, ed. J. Jefferson Looney. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018, p. 573.]

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