Thomas Jefferson to Lewis D. Belair, 18 December [1819]
To Lewis D. Belair
Monticello Dec. 18.
Sir
Your favor of the 7th is duly recieved. having been long confined at home by ill health, so as rarely to see any body, I have no opportunity of doing any thing with the subscription paper for mr Lobstein’s book, but to give my own signature which I have done with pleasure, and with my best wishes for it’s success to add my respectful salutations.
Th: Jefferson
PoC (DLC: TJ Papers, 216:38643); on verso of reused address cover to TJ; partially dated; at foot of text: “Mr Belair”; endorsed by TJ as a letter of 18 Dec. 1819 and so recorded in SJL.
Belair’s missing letter of the 7th, which is recorded in SJL as received 15 Dec. 1819 from Philadelphia, evidently enclosed a version of J. F. Daniel Lobstein’s prospectus for a book on the topography of Philadelphia (see Lobstein to TJ, 6 Sept. 1822, and note).
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