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Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Milligan, 18 May 1818

To Joseph Milligan

Monticello May 18. 18.

Dear Sir

I have recieved safely the Tacitus and other books sent you to be bound, except ‘a Treatise on internal navigation’1 in small 8vo which I am in hopes you have. it may be sent me by mail. should it by any accident have got mislaid or lost, as it was printed in N. York, I would pray you to get it from there & send it by mail, well bound. it is important to me as I am just about building some locks on our river, and relied on that book for instruction.   I recieved with my own books some on navigation, which not being for me, I expect are for m[r Car]r, who I suppose will call for them. there is one of them h[owever?] I would wish you to procure & send me. this is Bow[ditch’s] Practical navigator, the Stereotype edition of New York. 1817. b[e so] good as to cut it in two between the 264th & 265th pages, and bind it handsomely in 2. vols.

You informed me when here that you could furnish me with Bacon’s abridgment as cheap as I could import it. pray let me know the minimum price at which you could furnish that & the other law books stated below. on the moderateness of price will depend whether I take them. I salute you with friendship

Th: Jefferson

Bacon’s abridgment. most improved edition

Comyn’s Digest.

Coke’s Institutes. 8vo edn

Fonblanque’s Equity

Abridgment of cases in Equity. 8vo edn

PoC (MHi); on verso of reused address cover of Thomas Appleton to TJ, 20 Dec. 1817; torn at seal and ink stained; postscript adjacent to signature; at foot of text: “Mr Millegan”; endorsed by TJ.

1Omitted closing quotation mark editorially supplied.

Index Entries

  • A Digest of the laws of England (J. Comyns) search
  • A General Abridgment of Cases in Equity, Argued and Adjudged in the High Court of Chancery, &c. (M. Bacon) search
  • A New Abridgment of the Law (M. Bacon) search
  • A Treatise of Equity (Fonblanque) search
  • A Treatise on Internal Navigation. To which is Annexed, the Report of Albert Gallatin on Roads and Canals (comp. S. Young) search
  • Bacon, Matthew; A General Abridgment of Cases in Equity, Argued and Adjudged in the High Court of Chancery, &c. search
  • Bacon, Matthew; A New Abridgment of the Law search
  • books; binding of for TJ search
  • books; classical search
  • Bowditch, Nathaniel; The New American Practical Navigator search
  • C. Cornelii Taciti Opera, quæ exstant (Tacitus; eds. J. F. Gronovius and J. Gronovius) search
  • Carr, John Addison (TJ’s grandnephew); books sent to search
  • Coke, Sir Edward; The First Part of the Institutes of the Lawes of England: or a Commentary upon Littleton search
  • Comyns, Sir John; A Digest of the laws of England search
  • Fonblanque, John de Grenier; A Treatise of Equity search
  • Gallatin, Albert; A Treatise on Internal Navigation. To which is annexed, the report of Albert Gallatin, on Roads and Canals (comp. S. Young) search
  • Gronovius, Jacob; editsC. Cornelii Taciti Opera, quæ exstant (Tacitus) search
  • Gronovius, Johann Friedrich; editsC. Cornelii Taciti Opera, quæ exstant (Tacitus) search
  • Jefferson, Thomas; Books & Library; binding of books search
  • Jefferson, Thomas; Books & Library; orders books search
  • law; books on search
  • locks (canal) search
  • Milligan, Joseph; binds books for TJ search
  • Milligan, Joseph; letters to search
  • Milligan, Joseph; TJ orders books from search
  • Rivanna River; locks on search
  • Tacitus; C. Cornelii Taciti Opera, quæ exstant (eds. J. F. Gronovius and J. Gronovius) search
  • The First Part of the Institutes of the Lawes of England: or a Commentary upon Littleton (E. Coke) search
  • The New American Practical Navigator (N. Bowditch) search
  • Young, Samuel; compilesA Treatise on Internal Navigation. To which is Annexed, the Report of Albert Gallatin on Roads and Canals search