John Vaughan to Thomas Jefferson, 18 June 1817
From John Vaughan
Philad. June 18th 1817
Dr sir
Your favor of 7. is recieved & agreeably to your request I have Settled with Mr s: Girard & have paid ballance of his account $6666⁄100—at your Debit acco. is enclosed—as desired I have purchased of him
| for | 265$ | a 515/ fr | producing | 136475/ fr | order | Stephen Cathalan | |
| & | for | 135$ | " | " | 695.251 | " | Debures Freres— |
| $ | 400 | fs | 2060— |
I have sent one of each under cover to them via N York & the letters you sent are gone with them—I send seconds from home, but want Copies of your orders, to forward.—I adressed a line to each of the houses.—I advised that we had commenced printing a Volume, & that any Communication from you would be highly acceptable—D: B. S Barton left all his Indian Vocabularies to the Antiqn Socy Massachussets—can you Send me a list of those sent by you of Lewis & Clarkes that I may try to get them before the other goes—Your letter to M Correa mentions them, but does not describe them or give the number
Jn Vaughan
PS
a few Books hence sent by M Warden they were in a box left at Ghent when our Consul was there—The box was adressed to M Short
RC (MHi); endorsed by TJ as received 24 June 1817 and so recorded in SJL. RC (DLC); address cover only; with PoC of TJ to David Knight, 5 Oct. 1817, on verso; addressed: “Thomas Jefferson Monticello Va”; franked; postmarked Philadelphia, 18 June.
1. Reworked from “692.25.”
Index Entries
- American Antiquarian Society; collections of search
- American Philosophical Society; and papers of Lewis and Clark Expedition search
- American Philosophical Society; Transactions search
- Barton, Benjamin Smith; Indian vocabularies of search
- books; sent by D. B. Warden search
- Cathalan, Stephen (Étienne) (1757–1819); account with TJ search
- Clark (Clarke), William; and journals of Lewis and Clark Expedition search
- Corrêa da Serra, José; and journals of M. Lewis search
- de Bure Frères (Paris firm); TJ’s account with search
- Girard, Stephen; and TJ’s lines of credit search
- Indians, American; languages search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Books & Library; works sent to search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; account with de Bure Frères search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; account with J. Vaughan search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; account with S. Cathalan search
- language; Indian (American) search
- Lewis, Meriwether; papers of search
- Lewis and Clark Expedition; and Indian vocabularies search
- Short, William; mentioned search
- Vaughan, John; account with TJ search
- Vaughan, John; and American Philosophical Society search
- Vaughan, John; letters from search
- Warden, David Bailie; and books for TJ search