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James Dinsmore to Thomas Jefferson, 22 April 1817

From James Dinsmore

Petersburg April 22. 1817

Sir

your favour of the 13th Inst was duly received, and I beg leave to return you my most Sincere thanks for your Continued attention to my Interests—the proposition you make is most agreeable to me and I with pleasure accept of it, as I prefer that Neighbourhood to any I have yet lived in—tho in a pecuniary point of view this is the preferable place—we expect to finish our present engagements here in about two months but if it is Necessary I Should have no objection to make a trip up there at any time Called on—it is probable mr Neilson will also move up the Country when we finish here—I forwarded Some time Since to Colnl Monroe (at his request) a plan & estimate of a House to be Built in Albemarle but have not heard from him Since—& have had it Stated in a letter from Charlottesville that he now purposes—Building in Loudon—I have forwarded to mr Austin in Charlottesvill two Books (Bakers Chronicle & the History of the Holy Wars. printed in 1684)1—which were entrusted to my Care when in Norfolk last winterBy Captn Robert Simington with a request that I would present them to you in his Name as a tribute of his Respect for your person & Charecter—

with great Respt yours

Jas Dinsmore

NB mr Neilson2 Sends his best wishes

RC (ViU: TJP); endorsed by TJ as received 29 Apr. 1817 and so recorded in SJL; with additional notation by TJ on verso: “Capt Robert Simington. Norfolk.” RC (CSmH: JF-BA); address cover only; with PoC of TJ to Daniel Lescallier, 14 June 1817, on verso; addressed: “Thomas Jefferson Esqr Monticello”; stamped; postmarked Petersburg, 22 Apr.

On 29 Apr. 1817 Dinsmore informed John H. Cocke from Petersburg that either himself or John neilson would “do your work, as I have promised mr Jefferson to execute a Job in the Neighbou[r]hood of Charlottesville this fall—of which he mentions you as one of the visitors & in Consequence have made arrangements to quit here So Soon as we finish our present Engagements which will be in about two months” (RC in ViU: JHC; one word editorially corrected). That work was at Cocke’s Bremo estate, while the proposed building in loudon County was subsequently constructed as James Monroe’s Oak Hill plantation.

The two books were Sir Richard Baker, A Chronicle of the Kings of England (London, 1684; Poor, Jefferson’s Library description begins Nathaniel P. Poor, Catalogue. President Jefferson’s Library, 1829 description ends , 4 [no. 100]; for an earlier ed. see Sowerby, description begins E. Millicent Sowerby, comp., Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, 1952–59, 5 vols. description ends no. 357), and an unidentified edition of Louis Maimbourg, The History of the Crusade; or, the Expeditions of the Christian Princes for the Conquest of the Holy Land, trans. John Nalson (London, 1685; Poor, Jefferson’s Library description begins Nathaniel P. Poor, Catalogue. President Jefferson’s Library, 1829 description ends , 5 [no. 161]). TJ had previously owned the latter work in the original French (Histoire des Croisades pour la delivrance de la Terre Sainte, 4 vols. [2d ed., Paris, 1682; Sowerby, description begins E. Millicent Sowerby, comp., Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, 1952–59, 5 vols. description ends no. 619]).

1Omitted closing parenthesis editorially supplied.

2Manuscript: “Nelson.”

Index Entries

  • A Chronicle of the Kings of England (R. Baker) search
  • Austin, Mr. (of Charlottesville) search
  • Baker, Sir Richard; A Chronicle of the Kings of England search
  • books; on history search
  • Bremo (J. H. Cocke’s Fluvanna Co. estate) search
  • Central College, Board of Visitors; members of search
  • Central College; builders for search
  • Cocke, John Hartwell; and Bremo (house) search
  • Dinsmore, James; and building plan for J. Monroe search
  • Dinsmore, James; and work at Bremo (J. H. Cocke’s Fluvanna Co. estate) search
  • Dinsmore, James; as builder for Central College search
  • Dinsmore, James; letter from search
  • Dinsmore, James; transmits goods to TJ search
  • Histoire des Croisades pour la delivrance de la Terre Sainte (L. Maimbourg) search
  • Jefferson, Thomas; Books & Library; works sent to search
  • Maimbourg, Louis; Histoire des Croisades pour la delivrance de la Terre Sainte search
  • Maimbourg, Louis; The History of the Crusade; or, the Expeditions of the Christian Princes for the Conquest of the Holy Land (trans. J. Nalson) search
  • Nalson, John; translatesThe History of the Crusade; or, the Expeditions of the Christian Princes for the Conquest of the Holy Land (L. Maimbourg) search
  • Neilson (Nelson), John; and work at Bremo (J. H. Cocke’s Fluvanna Co. estate) search
  • Neilson (Nelson), John; as builder for Central College search
  • Neilson (Nelson), John; sends greetings to TJ search
  • Oak Hill (J. Monroe’s Loudoun Co. estate); construction of search
  • Simington, Robert; sends books to TJ search
  • The History of the Crusade; or, the Expeditions of the Christian Princes for the Conquest of the Holy Land (L. Maimbourg; trans. J. Nalson) search