1Thomas Jefferson to Tristram Dalton, 13 October 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you for the two agricultural pamphlets you were so kind as to send me by the hands of General & mrs Dearborne ; with which I was the more pleased as they gave me the sincere gratification of learning that you were well and situated to your own satisfaction. always sensible of your merit, I am equally so to your well-being. I have read mr Dexter ’s publication on peat with great...
2Thomas Jefferson to Tristram Dalton, 2 May 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I am indebted for your favor of Apr. 22. and for the copy of the Agricultural magazine it covered, which is indeed a very useful work. while I was an amateur in Agricultural science (for practical knolege my course of life never permitted me) I was very partial to the drilled husbandry of Tull , and thought still better of it when reformed by Young to 12.I. rows. but I had not time to try it...