1From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Hare, 10 April 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I am very thankful to you, Dear Sir, for the kindness with which you have attended to my late request. I did not mean to give you so much trouble as you have been so good as to take, altho’ it’s fruits are most acceptable and valuable. I make my acknolegements also for the pamphlets you have been so kind as to send me. your letter to Professor Silliman, proposing an easy method of imitating...
2From Thomas Jefferson to Robert Hare, 12 March 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
We have been some time preparing buildings for an University in this state, and we have now a prospect of being able to open it with the beginning of the next year. it’s Chemical school will need an Apparatus adapted to the course of experiments necessary in that school. it is necessary therefore for us to provide these in time, and it must probably be from Europe. but what they are I know...