Thomas Jefferson, Monticello, to William Clark. Had hoped that astronomical observations from expedition would be published after the “travelling journal.” Asks Clark to give Mr. Biddle an order releasing the “travelling pocket journals” to either the War Office or himself. If the latter, he would see that they went to the Philosophical Society but they actually belong to the War Office. [see Jackson, page 619]

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