24831To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Waterhouse, 20 February 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
From an opinion that President Jefferson does not feel indifferent to whatever concerns the welfare of any of the citizens in any of the States, Dr Waterhouse here sends for his acceptance a copy of a Lecture just printed, on the subject of the health of our literary youth; containing cautions respecting the use of Tobacco, & Ardent & vinous spirits; and hopes that the principles & design of...
24832Benjamin Waterhouse to Thomas Jefferson, 26 March 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 9 th ins t opened to my mind such a train of interesting ideas, that I could not resist writing you this, & enclosing you one of our Boston newspapers, containing a peice under the signature of an “ Independent Whig .” It will tend to confirm your opinion of our pretended fautores of science. More than a dozen numbers have preceeded this, some of them calculated to expose...
24833To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Waterhouse, 1 August 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Vaccine matter on the tooth-pick taken July 31.st. in the evening. The thread taken at the same time.—The two plates of glass, which he have covered with lead is just come to hand from Dr. Jenner being taken May 19th. in London. Two other plates containing some of the virus taken at the same time has been proved to be perfectly active. It adheres to the glass like gum. water, warm steam, or a...
24834Benjamin Waterhouse to Thomas Jefferson, 14 December 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
I received your letter of 13 th Oct r with pleasure, and read it with great satisfaction.— I here enclose a curious publication, printed first in Connecticut , & reprinted at Andover , 20 miles from this place, where is a new & well endowed theological college, being a splinter struck off from Cambridge , at the time when we elected an unitarian professor of divinity. Dwight of the...
24835To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Waterhouse, 16 November 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
When the marine-hospital was about to be established in my neighbourhood in the year 1803, I wrote to the President of the United States and solicited his consideration of my appointment to it, which I said, I should be glad of, provided the President did not see other plans & fitter persons for that place. Dr Charles Jarvase who was an older man & a better physician was appointed to it: night...
24836To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Waterhouse, 30 November 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Bearing in mind your lame wrist, and that you are a dozen years older than myself, & that you have hundreds, who, in the course of the year, inflict upon you the honor of their correspondence , in expectation of a reply, I here avow, at the begining, that what I now write is rather with a view to your amusement & gratification, than with the expectation of an answer. Not but that I set the...
24837To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Waterhouse, 1 October 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Yesterday I was honored with your letter of Sepr. 17th. from Monticello informing me that the Vaccine inoculation was effectually planted at Washington, as well as at and near your own residence, and that you had sent the matter to several parts of the State of Virginia. I rejoice, beyond what a person less zealous than myself can realize at this intelligence, being convinced that the matter...
24838To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Waterhouse, 4 July 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I seize the first leisure time since my return (for I tarried more than a week in New York with my Daughter) to express to you my thanks for your polite attention when on your pleasant mountain. It enlarged my view of things in more senses than one. It has also gratified an old Pilgrim in the fulfilment of his vow. A thousand questions are asked concerning you, and your noble offspring in your...
24839Benjamin Waterhouse to Thomas Jefferson, 18 June 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Finding that Mesrs. Rowe & Hooper are about sending you a copy of “ a Journal of a young man of Massachusetts ,” who was captured by the British, and confined during the war, at Halifax , at Chatham , and at Dartmoor , I cannot refrain, because I think it is proper, giving you more information relative to its publication than what appears on the face of the book— This smart young man put his...
24840To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Waterhouse, 22 October 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I rejoice, and so will you, that I am enabled to inform you that our aged friend M r Adams has recovered, remarkably, from that sunken state of debility, which appeared to indicate his dissolution last November, & the following winter. He cannot, besure, walk without help, nor see objects distinctly, neither can he feed himself; but he sleeps well & wakes refreshed, & eats very hearty. From a...