Thomas Jefferson Papers

To Thomas Jefferson from Amos Stoddard, 29 October 1804

From Amos Stoddard

St. Louis 29th. Octr. 1804.—

Sir,

Captain Lewis, before he left this, engaged a trader on the River Demoine to procure vocabularies of the Ayovais and Sioux languages. The trader has obtained that of the former, which I do myself the honor to enclose: That of the latter will be furnished sometime next spring, when it will be transmitted to you agreeably to the request of Capt. Lewis.

I am, Sir, with sentiments of high respect, Your very huml. Servt.

Amos Stoddard, Capt

corps of artillerists.

RC (DLC); at foot of text: “The President of the United States”; endorsed by TJ as received 29 Nov. and so recorded in SJL. Enclosure not found.

trader Lewis Crawford was the conduit for Meriwether Lewis’s communications to the Iowas (Ayovais) and Sioux residing along the Des Moines River (Moulton, Journals of the Lewis & Clark Expedition description begins Gary E. Moulton, ed., Journals of the Lewis & Clark Expedition, Lincoln, Neb., 1983-2001, 13 vols. description ends , 2:192n; Jackson, Lewis and Clark description begins Donald Jackson, ed., The Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, with Related Documents, 1783-1854, 2d ed., Urbana, Ill., 1978 description ends , 1:190, 191n, 196; Stoddard to TJ, 24 Mch. 1805). The missing enclosure was presumably among TJ’s collected vocabularies that were stolen and destroyed in 1809 (Vol. 20:451-2; Vol. 30:81-2n; Vol. 31:434n; RS description begins J. Jefferson Looney and others, eds., The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, Princeton, 2004- , 15 vols. description ends 1:555-7).

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    To Thomas Jefferson from Amos Stoddard, 29 October 1804
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    29 October 1804

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    “To Thomas Jefferson from Amos Stoddard, 29 October 1804,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-44-02-0554. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 44, 1 July to 10 November 1804, ed. James P. McClure. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019, p. 625.]

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