Thomas Jefferson Papers

To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Waterhouse, 20 February 1805

From Benjamin Waterhouse

Cambridge Feby. 20th. 1805.

From an opinion that President Jefferson does not feel indifferent to whatever concerns the welfare of any of the citizens in any of the States, Dr Waterhouse here sends for his acceptance a copy of a Lecture just printed, on the subject of the health of our literary youth; containing cautions respecting the use of Tobacco, & Ardent & vinous spirits; and hopes that the principles & design of it will meet the President’s approbation.

RC (DLC); in Waterhouse’s hand; endorsed by TJ as received 4 Mch. and so recorded in SJL. Enclosure: Benjamin Waterhouse, Cautions to Young Persons concerning Health in a Public Lecture Delivered at the Close of the Medical Course in the Chapel at Cambridge Nov. 20. 1804 (Cambridge, Mass., 1805; Sowerby, description begins E. Millicent Sowerby, comp., Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, Washington, D.C., 1952-59, 5 vols. description ends No. 994).

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    To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Waterhouse, 20 February 1805
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    Waterhouse, Benjamin
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    Jefferson, Thomas
    Date
    20 February 1805

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    “To Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Waterhouse, 20 February 1805,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-45-02-0557. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 45, 11 November 1804 to 8 March 1805, ed. James P. McClure et al. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021, p. 551.]

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