1To Thomas Jefferson from William Strickland, 20 May 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
Since my return home I have executed as fully as I have been able, tho not as compleatly as I could have wished the principal commission with which you charged me, that of procuring you the varieties of peas and vetches; those which I send you and of which some account is given in another paper which accompanies this are the sorts usually cultivated in this country, and all with which I am...
2To Thomas Jefferson from William Strickland, 28 May 1796 (Jefferson Papers)
As soon as it was in my power after my return to England I set about procuring the different kinds of Peas and Vetches which are cultivated in this country and which I promised to send you; as they were to be obtaind from different and distant parts of the Kingdom they were not to be collected together at an earlier period than the present, which indeed is as early as is requisite as they...
3To Thomas Jefferson from William Strickland, 16 August 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
The largest bag contains, what I believe to be the true winter vetch, grown in this neighbourhood under my own inspection. The small bag is of Perennial Darnel grass, (Lolium perenne) commonly called Ryegrass; and the box is filled up with Trifolium agrarium, Hop trefoil, or Hop-Clover. The first I send according to your request; the two last merely to fill up the box with something that...
4To Thomas Jefferson from William Strickland, 18 August 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
You will already have been informed by my letter of the fourth of June which I committed to the care of Mr: King before I left London of the receipt of yours dated the 12th: of March. Since my return home I have received a letter from Mr: Donald informing me that the box I committed to his care for you about the end of May 1796 lay in his possession several weeks before a safe conveyance...