Nicolas G. Dufief to Thomas Jefferson, 10 July 1813
From Nicolas G. Dufief
A Philadelphia ce 10 de Juillet. 1813
Monsieur
Il m’a été impossible de trouver à Philadelphie Tull’s horse hoeing husbandry, The memoirs of Theophilus Lindsay, & the Lounger’s common place book. Je puis vous procurer Les ouvrages Suivans d’Young
“ | The Farmer’s tour through the East of England, containing the minutes of above five hundred original experiments &ca 4 vol 8vo London |
Young’s Northern tour containing the register of many Curious and useful experiments in Agriculture, 4 vol, 8vo London | |
The Farmer’s calendar 8th edition London | |
Six weeks tour through the Southern counties of England and Wales London (Second hand) 8vo | |
Young’s France, 2 vol 8vo Dublin”1 |
Je vous envoye par la poste le dernier directory de Philade prix 1.25. Un vol du dictionnaire Le Suivra à la poste prochaine. vos ordres Seront toujours fidèlement exécutés
Agreez les assurances du profond respect avec lequel Je Suis
N. G. Dufief
Editors’ Translation
Philadelphia 10 July. 1813
Sir
I could not find Tull’s horse hoeing husbandry, The memoirs of Theophilus Lindsay, & the Lounger’s common place book in Philadelphia. I can get you the following works by Young
“ | The Farmer’s tour through the East of England, containing the minutes of above five hundred original experiments &ca 4 vol 8vo London |
Young’s Northern tour containing the register of many Curious and useful experiments in Agriculture, 4 vol, 8vo London | |
The Farmer’s calendar 8th edition London | |
Six weeks tour through the Southern counties of England and Wales London (Second hand) 8vo | |
Young’s France, 2 vol 8vo Dublin” |
I send you by post the most recent Philadelphia directory, price 1.25. A volume of the dictionary will follow it by the next post. Your orders will always be faithfully executed
With profound respect I am
N. G. Dufief
RC (DLC); endorsed by TJ as received 20 July 1813 and so recorded in SJL. Translation by Dr. Genevieve Moene.
Dufief had access to the following ouvrages by Arthur Young: The Farmer’s Tour through the East of England, 4 vols. (London, 1771); A Six Months Tour through the North of England, 4 vols. (London, 1770); The Farmer’s Calendar: containing the Business Necessary to be Performed on Various Kinds of Farms during Every Month of the Year, 8th ed. (London, 1809); A Six Weeks Tour, through the Southern Counties of England and Wales (London, 1768); and Travels during the Years 1787, 1788 and 1789, Undertaken more particularly with a View of ascertaining the Cultivation, Wealth, Resources, and National Prosperity, of the Kingdom of France, 2 vols. (Dublin, 1793; no. 744).
1. Omitted closing quotation mark editorially supplied.
Index Entries
- agriculture; books on search
- A New Universal and Pronouncing Dictionary of the French and English Languages (N. G. Dufief) search
- A Six Months Tour through the North of England (Young) search
- A Six Weeks Tour, through the Southern Counties of England and Wales (Young) search
- Belsham, Thomas; Memoirs of the Late Reverend Theophilus Lindsey, M.A. search
- books; on agriculture search
- books; on religion search
- Dufief, Nicolas Gouin; A New Universal and Pronouncing Dictionary of the French and English Languages search
- Dufief, Nicolas Gouin; bookseller search
- Dufief, Nicolas Gouin; letters from search
- French language; letters in, from; N. G. Dufief search
- Horse-Hoeing Husbandry: or, An Essay on the Principles of Vegetation and Tillage (J. Tull) search
- Lindsey, Theophilus; Memoirs of the Late Reverend Theophilus Lindsey search
- Memoirs of the Late Reverend Theophilus Lindsey, M.A. (T. Belsham) search
- Newman, Jeremiah Whitaker; The Lounger’s Common-Place Book search
- Philadelphia; directory search
- religion; works on search
- The Farmer’s Calendar (Young) search
- The Farmer’s Tour through the East of England (Young) search
- The Lounger’s Common-Place Book (Newman) search
- Travels during the years 1787, 1788 and 1789 (Young) search
- Tull, Jethro; Horse-Hoeing Husbandry: or, An Essay on the Principles of Vegetation and Tillage search
- Young, Arthur; A Six Months Tour through the North of England search
- Young, Arthur; A Six Weeks Tour, through the Southern Counties of England and Wales search
- Young, Arthur; The Farmer’s Calendar search
- Young, Arthur; The Farmer’s Tour through the East of England search
- Young, Arthur; Travels during the years 1787, 1788 and 1789 search