John B. Colvin (–1827)

". . . the scale of the Historical letters will find it’s place, and will become valuable and instructive in the degree which suits them. it will also be a convenient Manual even to proficients, who often wish to consult shorter works for a refreshment of memory when occasion occurs for taking more general views. for these purposes doubtless the work you sent me will be useful, & it’s cheapness as well as brevity will probably bring it into considerable demand. in wishing it success I contemplate not only your gratification, but the enlargement it may produce in the field of information among our fellow citizens." -- Thomas Jefferson to John B. Colvin, April 8, 1813… (altro)

Th. Jefferson returns his thanks to Mr. Colvin for the pamphlet he has been so kind as to send him, & particularly for so much of it as respects himself personally. It had arrived a week before his letter of Feb. 28, but there had not been a moment's doubt of the pen from which it came; that it was the same which had been known to have been so often & so ably exercised in support of the republican principles and administration of our government. It's truths, & it's logic will dispel the illusions of the ignisfatuus who is the subject of it, as far as it shall be read, and it is hoped it will be taken into the newspapers, of which there are probably 50. readers for one of pamphlets ... (TJ to Colvin, 11 March 1810)

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"I thank you for the historical work you have been so kind as to send me ... the scale of the Historical letters will find it’s place, and will become valuable and instructive in the degree which suits them. it will also be a convenient Manual even to proficients, who often wish to consult shorter works for a refreshment of memory when occasion occurs for taking more general views. for these purposes doubtless the work you sent me will be useful, & it’s cheapness as well as brevity will probably bring it into considerable demand. in wishing it success I contemplate not only your gratification, but the enlargement it may produce in the field of information among our fellow citizens." -- Thomas Jefferson to John B. Colvin, April 8, 1813… (altro)