Joseph Milligan to Thomas Jefferson, 6 March 1816
From Joseph Milligan
Georgetown March 6th 1816
Dear Sir
I received the balance $136 75 from Mr Gibson and on due examination find it all correct—on my return from Monticello I wrote to Genl Duane requesting him to send the translation and original of Tracy,s manuscript to Mr R C Weightman of Washington and I would pay him the $60 which he demanded of me the preceding winter for it. but I heard nothing more of it until you advised me you had received it why he sent it to you rather than to my direction I cannot say unless he knew that you were to revise it before publication but that he should have thot fit to charge it In your account rather than receive his money through Mr Weightmans hands which was the way that he at first proposed to receive it I cannot tell but as he has charged it in your account and you have had the goodness to say that you will pay it I will place it to your credit and close the business
I have had the Type & paper ready a long time to print the work when you send on the first part of the Manuscript have the goodness to furnish The title of the book with it that I may anounce the work as soon as I put it to press—
I have sent you by the way of Fredericksburg to the care of Mr William F. Gray a parcel as follows
| Ainsworth’s Dictionary 2 vols | $5 | 50 |  |
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| Virgil Delphini | 4 | 00 | Moors Greek Grammar | |
have not yet got | ||
| Baileys ovid | 2 | 75 | Mairs Tyro Dictionary | ||||
| Cornelius nepos | 1 | 00 | |||||
| $13 | – | 25 | 1 | ||||
Your books are now in the hands of the binders and as soon as bound say three weeks I will send them
Joseph Milligan
RC (DLC); endorsed by TJ as received 15 Mar. 1816 and so recorded in SJL.
1. First page ends here with “turn over.”
Index Entries
- Ainsworth, Robert; An Abridgement of Ainsworth’s Dictionary (ed. T. Morell) search
- An Abridgement of Ainsworth’s Dictionary (R. Ainsworth; ed. T. Morell) search
- A Treatise on Political Economy (Destutt de Tracy) search
- Bailey, Nathan; editsMinellius Anglicanus, sive Publii Ovidii Nasonis Metamorphoseon (Ovid) search
- Blatchford, Samuel; Elements of the Greek Language … Being a Translation of Dr. Moor’s Celebrated Greek Grammar search
- books; dictionaries search
- Delphin edition; TJ orders search
- Destutt de Tracy, Antoine Louis Claude; A Treatise on Political Economy search
- Duane, William; and Destutt de Tracy’s works search
- Elements of the Greek Language … Being a Translation of Dr. Moor’s Celebrated Greek Grammar (eds. S. Blatchford and G. Ewing) search
- Ewing, Greville; Elements of the Greek Language … Being a Translation of Dr. Moor’s Celebrated Greek Grammar search
- French language; TJ translates works from search
- Gibson, Patrick; payments made for TJ search
- Gray, William Fairfax; and transmission of packages to and from TJ search
- Greek language; study of search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Books & Library; orders books search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Books & Library; prefers Delphin edition search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; account with J. Milligan search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Writings; translates Destutt de Tracy’s works search
- La Rue, Charles de; edits Virgil,Opera. Interpretatione et Notis (Delphin edition) search
- Mair, John; The Tyro’s Dictionary, Latin and English search
- Milligan, Joseph; account with TJ search
- Milligan, Joseph; and Destutt de Tracy’sTreatise on Political Economy search
- Milligan, Joseph; binds books for TJ search
- Milligan, Joseph; letters from search
- Milligan, Joseph; sends books to TJ search
- Milligan, Joseph; visits Monticello search
- Minellius, John; annotates Ovid’sMetamorphoses search
- Minellius Anglicanus, sive Publii Ovidii Nasonis Metamorphoseon (Ovid; ed. N. Bailey) search
- Monticello (TJ’s estate); Visitors to; Milligan, Joseph search
- Moor, James; Elements of the Greek Language … Being a Translation of Dr. Moor’s Celebrated Greek Grammar (eds. S. Blatchford and G. Ewing) search
- Morell, Thomas; editsAn Abridgement of Ainsworth’s Dictionary search
- Nepos, Cornelius; works of search
- Nepos, Cornelius; works of bound for TJ search
- Opera. Interpretatione et Notis (Virgil, Delphin edition; ed. C. de La Rue) search
- Ovid; Minellius Anglicanus, sive Publii Ovidii Nasonis Metamorphoseon (ed. N. Bailey) search
- Ovid; Pub. Ouidii Nasonis Metamorphoseon (ed. J. Pontanus) search
- Ovid; works of bound for TJ search
- Pontanus, Jakob; editsPub. Ouidii Nasonis Metamorphoseon (Ovid) search
- Pub. Ouidii Nasonis Metamorphoseon (Ovid; ed. J. Pontanus) search
- The Tyro’s Dictionary, Latin and English (J. Mair) search
- Virgil; Opera. Interpretatione et Notis (Delphin edition; ed. C. de La Rue) search
- Weightman, Roger Chew; conveys manuscript to J. Milligan search