Letter signed Ernst Frederick Walterstorff, St. Croix, to Thomas Jefferson, Philadelphia, October 9, 1792
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Identifier: D04208
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- Thomas Jefferson Collection | Letter signed Ernst Frederick Walterstorff, St. Croix, to Thomas Jefferson, Philadelphia. Introduces his friend Col. von Rohr, inspector general for public buildings and surveyor, as a student of natural history. Rolf has written "a small Treatise" on the cultivation of cotton and is to be in charge of a new colony established by the Danish king on the coast of Guinea. In response to abolishing the slave trade, this colony was to civilize Negroes and promote the cultivation of the West Indies. (2 pages) (See John Catanzariti, ed., <span class="italic emph">The Papers of Thomas Jefferson</span>, Vol. 24, p. 458), 1792 Oct 9
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