Letter from Dio, Luke O. to Thomas Jefferson, about his qualifications for laying out public gardens in Washington, D.C.

Hon[our]d S[i]r I am informed that there is Publick Gardens to be Laid out in the City of Washington under your sanction and as you have seen some of the Beautifull [sic] Gardens of Europe I should Be Happy to Dow [sic] Buisness [sic] for them that seen and understands more by all acc[oun]ts than any other man in this Part of the world if the work is Not alre[a]dy Bespoke or Dowing [sic] By men of Judgment I would undertake the Drawing for the work and finish it to any Neatness R

[Mr. W. K. Bixby of St. Louis presented the original of this letter to Secretary D. F. Houston for the U.S. Department of Agriculture on March 31, 1915]

[U.S. Dept. of Agriculture - Jefferson MSS. - A.L.S.]