1Thomas Jefferson to William Annesley, 26 March 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I am duly sensible of the mark of consideration you ha ve been so kind as to shew me in consulting me on the subject of your new system in ship and boat building; but neither my occupations nor habits permit me any longer to indulge myself in speculations of that kind: and at no time of my life should I have been a competent judge of this. born and educated among the mountains, I am quite a...
2From Thomas Jefferson to William Annesley, 20 November 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I duly rec d the copy of your late pamphlet on shipbuilding, and your favor of the 11 th is now at hand requesting ‘my jdmt on it as a means of bringing it into early & gen l practice in the US.’ born & bred among the mountains, and scarcely knowing the head from the stern of a ship it would be great presumption in me to offer to my f.c. a jdmt on a subject on which they know that I must be so...