Thomas Jefferson Papers

From Thomas Jefferson to Elkanah Watson, 24 March 1804

To Elkanah Watson

Washington Mar. 24. 04

Th: Jefferson returns his thanks to mr Watson for the copy of his travels which he was so kind as to send him, and which he shall peruse with pleasure at his first moments of leisure, & he tenders him his salutations & respects.

PoC (DLC); endorsed by TJ.

copy of his travels: see Vol. 41:568-9. TJ did not receive Watson’s letter and enclosure of 18 Oct. 1803 until 17 Mch. 1804.

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    From Thomas Jefferson to Elkanah Watson, 24 March 1804
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    “From Thomas Jefferson to Elkanah Watson, 24 March 1804,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-43-02-0078. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 43, 11 March–30 June 1804, ed. James P. McClure. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017, p. 84.]

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