21John Laval to Thomas Jefferson, 6 July 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I have received from Col l Peyton , your Correspondent in Richmond , a Draft on the Bank of U.S. for Thirty one Dollars & fifty seven Cents Which I have placed to your Credit. RC ( MHi ); dateline at foot of text; adjacent to dateline: “ Thomas Jefferson , Esq.”; endorsed by TJ as received 14 July 1822, but recorded in SJL as received two days earlier.
22To Thomas Jefferson from John Laval, 16 April 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
After diligent inquiry, I have ascertained that no bookseller, in Philadelphia, has received a Copy of Las Casas in french, I have reason to doubt that any has been sent to this country. the Count de Survilliers (Napoleon’s Brother) to whom, generally all new publications of the kind are addressed, has none, & I do not know that any Edition of the Original has ever been printed. I can supply...
23To Thomas Jefferson from John Laval, 6 May 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I Send you, by this day’s Mail, the first Volume of the Journal of Las Casas, I will forward the Others Successively. I am with the highest Consideration & respect MHi .
24To Thomas Jefferson from John Laval, 27 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I Sent you, on the 20 th inst t , A Nautical Almanac for 1823 & One for 1824. I forward, By this day’s Mail, Jno Bailey’s Phadrus, 8 vo , London Edit. 2 d hand, they are the only Copies I Could Obtain in all the city. the Book not being used in Our Schools, has not been reprinted here, this Accounts for its Scarcity & the price. Agreeably to your request, I, herein, inclose Your Account. DLC :...
25To Thomas Jefferson from John Laval, 20 September 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
At the receipt of your letter of the 16 th Ult o , I made the most diligent inquiries for Russel’s A view & , &, not being able to find it in any book House of Philadelphia, I wrote to Several persons in Baltimore, New-York, Boston & Portsmouth to do their utmost to procure it for you. My Correspondents have been rather dilatory in imparting their Want of Success, this accounts for my having...
26To Thomas Jefferson from John Laval, 29 November 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I Sent you, by this Morning’s Mail, the first Volume of Gillian’s Aristotle, & Will forward the Second on Friday next. the two Volumes. 8 vo Calf b d are $ 8.50—the Price is high, but the Work is Very Scarce & this Copy the only One I Could obtain. I have paid to M r A. Laeeland the Am t of your Small Bill. Four Additional Volumes of Las Casas’s Memorial have been published, here, Since May...
27To Thomas Jefferson from John Laval, 5 February 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been prevented, to this day, by indisposition, from informing you that, agreeably to your desires, I have ordered from London, on the 20 th of December Ult o . Gerard’s Plan of education in the Marischal College & university of Aberdeen, with the reasons of it printed by Chalurers of Aberdeen; also Baxter’s history of England, the 8 vo edition, if any has been printed, if not & then...
28To Thomas Jefferson from John Laval, 19 February 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Your Account is credited with $10= inclosed in your letter of the 11 th inst t , leaving a balance of $3.75 in your favor— I have disposed of several copies 8 vo of Laplace’s Systeme du monde , the only one I can procure, now, is a 4 to sewed, 456 pages; Paris 1813, for $6= I don’t send it for fear it might not meet your Approbation, as you order a copy 8 vo —if, for want of an 8 vo , this 4...
29To Thomas Jefferson from John Laval, 24 September 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
My Correspondent in London informed me, in June last, that Russell’s view of education & Baxter’s history of England were entirely out of print, and Girard’s plan of education could not be procured in any of the Bookstores. I was so much mortified with my want of success that I have delayed, from day to day, to impart to you this unfavorable answer. I ask your pardon for my neglect, but can...