1To Thomas Jefferson from L. Ashburner, 16 December 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
During a long residence in India I had occasion to correspond with Capt n Jacob Crowninshield of Salem to whom I sent two specimens of wheat of the most fertile Provinces: these specimens he wrote me, were forwarded to you, as one of the Judicious Agriculturists of the Union. I have taken the liberty of writing to you, to learn if these specimens vegetated and if they afforded grain of a...