Excerpt from Philip Mazzei, Virginia's Agent in Europe: The Story of His Mission as Related in His Own Dispatches and Other DocumentsIn Virginia, he met George Washington, George Wythe, Thomas Jefferson, and other prominent Americans, and also American friends he had known in England. After carrying out agricultural experiments on an extensive scale, under the auspices of a company which raised the necessary money, and Of which Jefferson was a member, Mazzei succeeded in putting his enterprise on a sound business basis. At about this time Mazzei married the widow of Joseph Martin, she, together with her daughter, having accompanied him to America.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.