2701Benjamin Smith Barton to Thomas Jefferson, 13 [April] 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
I acknowledge, with many thanks, the receipt of your package , which came safe to-day. The letters will, doubtless, be highly valuable to me. They contain every thing I could wish for. I beg your acceptance of a few (3) small tracts in natural history.They may amuse you & our friend M r Randolph , in a hour of leisure. Sickness stopped me short, in the progress of my publication of several...
2702Benjamin Smith Barton to Thomas Jefferson, 13 July 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
As you take much interest in the knowledge of every thing relative to the american Mammouth, and other similar animals, I am persuaded that you will be glad to learn, that I have recently received from St. Petersburgh in Russia , some fine large drawings of the great Asiatic Mammouth, whose skeleton, together with some portions of the skin and muscular parts, has lately been discovered, in a...
2703Benjamin Smith Barton to Thomas Jefferson, 16 October 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received your kind letter , with the seeds & M r Vater’s book . I beg you to accept of my thanks for your attention. M r Vater , I find, has made very free use of my publication on the American languages, but not, indeed, without acknowledgment, in several instances. I have not time at present, to study his book. I think, Sir, we should not be too liberal in sending our collections of...
2704Benjamin Smith Barton to Thomas Jefferson, 6 March 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
I return one of the vols. of Persoon . The other shall follow in a few days. I greatly regret the long keeping. an unpleasant accident, which it is unnecessary to mention particularly, was the cause of my so long depriving you of these books. It will be very grateful to me to learn, from you, in any way you please, of the safe return of these books. vols. For the loan of them, I am very much...
2705To James Madison from Benjamin Smith Barton, 20 April 1813 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
20 April 1813, Philadelphia. “By the death of Dr. Rush, there is a vacancy in the Mint. I had for a long time been anxious to for a place in that institution, & accordingly I wrote to the late president, on the subject, some years ago. Should you think me worthy of the place, I shall endeavour to discharge its duties with fidelity, and with a continuance of my unaffected attachment to my...
2706To James Madison from Benjamin Smith Barton, 30 January 1810 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
30 January 1810, Philadelphia. Introduces his nephew, W. P. C. Barton, who holds a naval commission and “will never disgrace the important station in which you have been pleased to place him.” RC ( DLC ). 1 p. Docketed by JM. Benjamin Smith Barton, the eminent botanist, had recommended William Paul Crillon Barton for appointment as a naval surgeon. JM nominated him in June 1809 (B. S. Barton...
2707Benjamin Smith Barton to Thomas Jefferson, 19 February 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
In a b about 3 weeks, perhaps less, I shall sail for Europe . I shall visit France ; the borders at least of Italy ; & England (for a short time) on my return. my first & great object is the recovery of my health, which has suffered most severely this winter: indeed, a few days ago, I was so ill, that I hardly hoped to be able to take the voyage.—Besides my health, I have some favourite...
2708Benjamin Smith Barton to Thomas Jefferson, 12 April 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
This will be handed to you by Judge Woodward , whose great merits, in various respects, are not unknown to you. The Judge is about to visit you, for the purpose of your position concerning a work on the “classification of human knowledge,” in which he has long been engaged. I have had frequent conversations with M r Woodward , who has developed to me, at length, the outlines of his plan, in...
2709Benjamin Smith Barton to Thomas Jefferson, 1 May 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
M r Oemler , of Georgia , a very intelligent gentleman, who has devoted much attention to the study of Entomology, has very particularly requested me to give him a few lines to you. I could not deny him this favor. He appears to be a man of much merit; and has, indeed, been mentioned to me, by some of my friends, in terms of great praise. I fear you are very anxious to get back Persoon . I...
2710Thomas Jefferson to Adamo Fabbroni, Antoine Gouan, Lacepede, Marc Auguste Pictet, and André Thoüin, 6 March 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
Doct r Barton , my friend, proposing, for the benefit of his health, a voyage across the Atlantic , and a trial of the air of Europe , will probably visit Florence in the course of his travels. he is one of the Vice presidents of the American Philosophical society , Professor of Natural history, Botany, Materia Medica, and of the Institutes and Clinical practice of Medecine in the University...