1Thomas Jefferson to Claudius Crozet, 31 March [1821] (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor from Westpoint has been duly recieved. we are as yet far from the time at which we may think of procuring Professors for our University . the buildings indeed will all be finished in the course of 2. or 3. years, but our funds will be left burthened with a heavy debt, which will absorb them many years, if left to discharge it. whether the legislature at some future day may take it...
2Thomas Jefferson to Claudius Crozet, 23 November 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you, Sir, for your kind attention in sending me a copy of your valuable treatise on Descriptive geometry. I felicitate the Student of the present day on this important Supplement to his knolege of the theory of geometry, and those of our country particularly in on their fortunate acquisition of so able an instructor in it. we are sometimes disposed to think with regret that we have...