1Thomas Jefferson to Francis Willis, 23 February 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Feb. 6. came to hand by our last post, and I have this day written to the Secretary at War on the subject of your request. I ought however to observe to you that it will be necessary for you to forward on to the Secretary at War letters or certificates of character from persons to whom you are personally known; and if they are from persons known at Washington , it will be so much...
2From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Willis, 15 July 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
I was happy to recieve your favor by your son and happier to recieve him, and to learn that you are in good health. I find by his conversation that he has a fund of information which at his time of life must promise the best success: and should have thought him a valuable acquisition to our neighborhood. But the gr[ound?] had been occupied before the death even of Doctr. Gilmer, by a gentleman...
3From Thomas Jefferson to Francis Willis, 23 July 1766 (Jefferson Papers)
I am at length arrived here, after a long, but agreeable trip along the continent as far as New York; which however was less agreeable for want of a companion, whose equal curiosity might have kept one in countenance in rambling over the different places which lie on the road. This I expected from you, and wrote to you upon that subject early in the spring; and nothing could equal my vexation...