RC (DLC); on verso of enclosed prospectus; addressed: “Thomas Jefferson Esqr Monticello Virginia”; franked; postmarked Philadelphia, 15 Jan.; endorsed by TJ as received 27 Jan. 1816 and so recorded in SJL. Enclosure: prospectus for Delaplaine’s Repository description begins Joseph Delaplaine, Delaplaine’s Repository of the Lives and Portraits of Distinguished Americans, Philadelphia, 1816–18, 2 vols.; Poor, Jefferson’s Library, 4 (no. 139) description ends , stating that publication of the work has been delayed due to imperfect engraving, but that Delaplaine expects to issue the first half-volume in January 1816; noting that this issue will contain the lives and portraits of George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, Fisher Ames, Benjamin Rush, Christopher Columbus, and Amerigo Vespucci, as well as “an elegant vignette Title page by Fairman, and Frontispiece by Lawson”; advising subscribers that they may withdraw their names after completion of any individual volume; indicating that the work will be printed in quarto and issued in half-volumes, and that each full volume will consist of twelve portraits and accompanying biographies; listing the price as $4 per half-volume for subscribers and $6 for nonsubscribers; explaining that because likenesses of George Washington by Gilbert Stuart and Jean Antoine Houdon are both popular, each image will be included; and supplying a list of agents taking subscriptions, including George Richards in Georgetown, D.C., and Fitzwhylsonn & Potter in Richmond (broadside in DLC: TJ Papers, 205:36611, on verso of covering letter, undated, mutilated at fold; broadside in DLC: TJ Papers, 206:36638, on verso of Delaplaine to TJ, 27 Jan. 1816, undated, mutilated; see also note to Delaplaine to TJ, 16 Apr. 1814).