The Pr??sent Bien Pr??cieux that TJ gave to Malesherbes included part, perhaps all, of the seventeen kinds of American shrubs and trees that he had purchased on 24 Apr. 1786 from James Lee & Co. near London for ??4 15s., consisting of sixty-nine specimens (MS invoice, ???Mr. Jefferson Bought of James Lee & Co.,??? 24 Apr. 1786, in U. S. Dept. of Agriculture).