Fernagus De Gelone to Thomas Jefferson, 22 January 1820
From Fernagus De Gelone
New York January 22. 1820.
Sir
I Should be truly and deeply grateful to you to let me receive, as Soon as You can, the 21 dollars which are the amount of your bill. I also beg you to pay attention to a catalogue of foreign books I took the liberty to forward to you yesterday.
In the hope of your being in a better State of health, I am with the greatest respect,
sir.
fernagus De Gelone
RC (MHi); endorsed by TJ as received 1 Feb. 1820 and so recorded in SJL. RC (DLC); address cover only; with PoC of TJ to Elkanah Watson, 16 May 1820, on verso; addressed: “Thomas Jefferson Esqr Monticello. Milton. Va”; franked; postmarked New York, 22 Jan.
The catalogue sent by Fernagus De Gelone may have been A Catalogue of Books, in the dead and living languages, which are for sale at F. Gelone’s Book-Store, No. 96, Broad Way, New-York, and at Lewis D. Belair’s Book-Store, South Sixth Street, Below Chesnut Street, Philadelphia ([1820]; copy in TxDaHCL). Around this time Fernagus De Gelone advertised his new catalogue of foreign books (New York Commercial Advertiser, 4, 27 Jan. 1820).
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- A Catalogue of Books, in the dead and living languages, which are for sale at F. Gelone’s Book-Store, No. 96, Broad Way, New-York, and at Lewis D. Belair’s Book-Store, South Sixth Street, Below Chesnut Street, Philadelphia search
- Fernagus De Gelone, Jean Louis; letters from search
- Fernagus De Gelone, Jean Louis; sends book catalogues search
- Fernagus De Gelone, Jean Louis; TJ’s account with search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Books & Library; catalogues from booksellers search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; account with J. L. Fernagus De Gelone search