To Thomas Jefferson from Lacépède, 25 July 1803

From Lacépède

le 6. thermidor, an 11.
[i.e. 25 July 1803]

Monsieur le président

M. Livingston veut bien se charger de faire parvenir à votre excellence, mon histoire naturelle des poissons, dont le cinquième et dernier volume vient de paroître.

J’ai l’honneur de vous prier de vouloir bien l’agréer comme un hommage de mon tendre dévouement, de ma très haute considération, de mon admiration, et de mon respect.

b. g. é. l. la cepède

Editors’ Translation

6 Thermidor Year 11
[i.e. 25 July 1803]

Mister President,

Mr. Livingston has kindly offered to send your excellency my natural history of fish, the fifth and final volume of which has just been published.

I have the honor of asking you to accept it as a sign of my fond devotion, high esteem, admiration, and respect.

b. g. é. l. la cepède

RC (DLC); English date supplied; endorsed by TJ as received from Paris 28 Sep. and so recorded in SJL.

The fifth volume completed Lacépède’s Histoire naturelle des poissons, which was published in Paris from 1798 to 1803. TJ had John March bind his set of the volumes in October 1804 (Sowerby, description begins E. Millicent Sowerby, comp., Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, Washington, D.C., 1952-59, 5 vols. description ends No. 1050; statement of account with John March for 16 Apr. 1804 to 7 Mch. 1805, in MHi).

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Source Project: Jefferson Papers
Title: To Thomas Jefferson from Lacépède, 25 July 1803
Author: Lacépède, Bernard Germain Etienne de La Ville-sur-Illon, Comte de
Recipient: Jefferson, Thomas
Date: 25 July 1803

Reference

Cite as: “To Thomas Jefferson from Lacépède, 25 July 1803,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-41-02-0081. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 41, 11 July–15 November 1803, ed. Barbara B. Oberg. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014, pp. 115–116.]

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