C. & A. Conrad & Company to Thomas Jefferson, [received 15 April 1810]
From C. & A. Conrad & Company
[received 15 Apr. 1810]
Sir
We take leave to hand you the above account supposing it more agreeable to you that we should do so than to suffer it to remain on our books
Permit us Sir to use this oppertunity to thank you again for the interest you were pleased to take in the publicn of the late Gov Lewis & Genl Clarkes book and the trouble you gave yourself in addressing two letters to us on the subject. We have now the pleasure to inform you that Genl Clarke has engaged Professor Barton & Mr Nicholas Biddle to write his book and that it is likely to be published without any further unnecessary delay—We are sir With the highest respect
C & A Conrad & co
RC (MHi); undated; subjoined to account billing TJ $14 for the first seven numbers of Anne Louis de Tousard, American Artillerist’s Companion, or Elements of Artillery, 3 vols. (Philadelphia, 1809–13; no. 1160), sent individually between 27 Nov. 1807 and 21 Oct. 1809; endorsed by TJ as received 15 Apr. 1810 and so recorded in SJL.
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