Letter from Thomas Jefferson to Eli Whitney Regarding the Cotton Gin
Jefferson, Thomas Nov. 16. 1793 Germantown Eli Whitney Whitney, Eli TO ELI WHITNEY J. MSS. Germantown, Nov. 16. 1793. Sir, — Your favor of Oct. 15. inclosing a drawing of your cotton gin, was received on the 6th inst. The only requisite of the law now uncomplied with is the forwarding a model, which being received your patent may be made out delivered to your order immediately. As the state of Virginia, of which I am, carries on household manufactures…