Thomas Jefferson to Fitzwhylsonn & Potter, 28 May 1817
To Fitzwhylsonn & Potter
Monticello May 28. 17
Messrs Fitzwhylson and Potter
The books which you bound for me are safely recieved and I this day send another parcel by Colo Randolph, who will have delivered them to you probably before your receipt of this. the bindings already recieved are good, and particularly in the article I value of their solid pressure. varieties in the bindings are also useful as well as pleasing to distinguish them on the shelf, and particularly the richness and variegation of the back. I shall be glad to recieve these as soon as is consistent with their being well-bound. another parcel is in a course of collection to go some time hence. I have written on the different covers the words for lettering their backs, and give a list below. I salute you with respect.
Th: Jefferson
[Hi]ppocrate de Gardeil. 4. vols
Mexico de De Solis. 3. v.
Euclide de Peyrard.
Archimede de Peyrard. 2. v.
Geographia plantarum. Humboldt.
PoC (DLC); on verso of reused address cover of Bernard Peyton to TJ, 17 Mar. 1817; torn at seal; endorsed by TJ.
Some time before this Alexander von humboldt had sent TJ his work De Distributione Geographica Plantarum, with the inscription “à Mr. Jefferson hommage d’admiration de respect et de reconnaissance L’auteur” (“To Mr. Jefferson, a tribute of admiration, respect, and gratitude from the author”) (Paris, 1817; , 6 [no. 281]; TJ’s copy in DLC: Rare Book and Special Collections).
Index Entries
- Archimedes; Œuvres d’Archimède (trans. F. Peyrard) search
- books; binding of for TJ search
- De Distributione Geographica Plantarum (Humboldt) search
- Euclid; Les Élémens de Géométrie d’Euclide (F. Peyrard) search
- Fitzwhylsonn & Potter (Richmond firm); binds publications for TJ search
- Fitzwhylsonn & Potter (Richmond firm); letters to search
- Gardeil, Jean Baptiste; translatesTraduction des œuvres médicales d’Hippocrate, sur le texte grec, d’après l’édition de Foës (ed. D. J. Tournon) search
- Hippocrates (Greek physician); Traduction des œuvres médicales d’Hippocrate, sur le texte grec, d’après l’édition de Foës (ed. D. J. Tournon; trans. J. B. Gardeil) search
- Historia de la Conquista de Mexico, poblacion, y progresos de la America Septentrional, conocida por el nombre de Nueva España (A. de Solís y Rivadeneira) search
- Humboldt, Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander, Baron von; De Distributione Geographica Plantarum search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Books & Library; binding of books search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Books & Library; works sent to search
- Les Élémens de Géométrie d’Euclide (F. Peyrard) search
- Œuvres d’Archimède (trans. F. Peyrard) search
- Peyrard, François; translatesLes Élémens de Géométrie d’Euclide (Euclid) search
- Peyrard, François; translatesŒuvres d’Archimède (Archimedes) search
- Randolph, Thomas Mann (1768–1828) (TJ’s son-in-law; Martha Jefferson Randolph’s husband); delivers goods search
- Solís y Rivadeneira, Antonio de; Historia de la Conquista de Mexico, poblacion, y Progresos de la America Septentrional, conocida por el nombre de Nueva España search
- Spanish language; works in search
- Tournon, Dominique Jérôme; editsTraduction des œuvres médicales d’Hippocrate, sur le texte grec, d’après l’édition de Foës search
- Traduction des œuvres médicales d’Hippocrate, sur le texte grec, d’après l’édition de Foës (Hippocrates; ed. D. J. Tournon; trans. J. B. Gardeil) search