To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas T. Hewson, 20 March 1804
From Thomas T. Hewson
Philada March 20th, 1804
Sir,
The American Philosophical Society join with you in congratulations on the acquisition of Louisiana, and have directed me to express their grateful sense of your offer of patronage and assistance. The Society receive from the chief magistrate of their country, with peculiar satisfaction, this mark of your attention to their interest, and to that of science in general; and assure you of their most cordial cooperation in your benevolent and patriotic views.
I have the honour to be, Sir, with great respect, Your most obedient humble servant,
Thos T Hewson, Secy. A.P.S.
RC (DLC); at foot of text: “His Excellency Thos Jefferson”; endorsed by TJ as received 23 Mch. and so recorded in SJL.
At its meeting on 17 Feb., the american philosophical society assigned Hewson to draft a response to TJ’s letter to him of 20 Jan. On 16 Mch., the organization ordered Hewson’s letter sent to the president (, Proceedings, 22, pt. 3 [1884], 348-9).