Correspondence regarding horticulture, and especially, gardening at Monticello [manuscript] 1796-1824.

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Correspondence regarding horticulture, and especially, gardening at Monticello [manuscript] 1796-1824.

Correspondents include Thomas Appleton, John Adlum, John Banister, James Barbour, Joel Barlow, John Bartram, Samuel Brown, William Brown, William Caruthers, Stephen Cathalan, J. Chambers, James Powell Cooke, William Coolidge, Tristram Dalton, John David, James Dinsmore, John Dortie, William Drayton, William Few, Anthony Giannini, David Hosack, William Johnson, Honoré Julien, Nicholas Lewis, William G. Maclure, James Madison, Thomas Main, James Mease, John Milledge, Julien Ursini Niemcewicz, Charles Wilson Peale, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, Thomas Mann Randolph, James Ronaldson, Philip Tabb, John Taylor, André Thoüin, James W. Wallace, James Wilkinson, William Warden, and Williamson and Cowling, Savannah, Ga.

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