1To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Smith Barton, 26 October 1798 (Jefferson Papers)
I have lately published a new edition of my New Views. I shall endeavour, by the first private conveyance, to forward to you a copy of it. It is very greatly enlarged. I am extremely anxious to pursue this subject much farther. I shall, therefore, be much obliged to you for the sight of your Vocabularies , when you shall come—to town. All mine are at your service. Will it not be possible to...
2Book Dedication from Benjamin Smith Barton, 21 June 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
If the following pages were more perfect, and of course more worthy of your notice, I should have taken additional pleasure in inscribing them to you. Even, however, in their present imperfect state, I flatter myself that you will receive them as a testimony of my high sense of your talents and virtues, and of your eminent services to your country. The only dedications I ever wrote were to two...