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Thomas Jefferson to Frederick A. Mayo, 12 August 1821, with Jefferson’s Note

To Frederick A. Mayo, with Jefferson’s Note

Monticello Aug. 12. 21.

Sir

The Governor returning to Richmond in a [carriage], takes charge of a box of books which I request you to bind for me. in the box I have put a volume [Bede’s Ecclesiastical history]1 as a model for all the bindings, only that the backs may be a little richer gilt. I wish you to do them for me as speedily as you can and deliver them when done to Colo Peyton, sending me a bill of the cost which shall be promptly attended to. there is a volume separately wrapt up, becaus[e]2 it could not be got into the box. I salute you with esteem and respect.

Th: Jefferson

Universal history. 20. v. 8vo

Grammatica Anglo-Saxonica.

Owen’s Geoponics. 2. vols to be bound together in 1.

Manual Gr. Eng.

Apocryphal New testament.

Wheatley’s Gardening.

 

[Co]llection plantarum. Greenway. separately packed.

 

[Note by TJ at foot of text:]

Sep. 16.  sent him by mr Randolph
20th vol of Weekly register + 19th as model.
Saxon gospels.
LXX Prolegomena & 1st vol. as model
4. vols of LXX for mr Hatch.

PoC (MHi); on verso of reused address cover of Bernard Peyton to TJ, 21 May 1821; two words faint; adjacent to signature: “Mr Mayo”; endorsed by TJ.

manual gr. eng.: J. H. Bass, A Greek and English Manual Lexicon to the New Testament (London, 1820; Poor, Jefferson’s Library description begins Nathaniel P. Poor, Catalogue. President Jefferson’s Library, 1829 description ends , 9 [no. 504]). wheatley’s gardening: Thomas Whately, Observations on Modern Gardening (2d ed., London, 1770; Sowerby, description begins E. Millicent Sowerby, comp., Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, 1952–59, 5 vols. description ends no. 4227; Poor, Jefferson’s Library description begins Nathaniel P. Poor, Catalogue. President Jefferson’s Library, 1829 description ends , 12 [no. 727]). saxon gospels: Franciscus Junius, Quatuor D. N. Jesu Christi Evangeliorum Versiones perantiquæ duæ, Gothica scil. et Anglo-Saxonica, ed. Thomas Marshall (Dordrecht, 1655; Sowerby, description begins E. Millicent Sowerby, comp., Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, 1952–59, 5 vols. description ends no. 4864; Poor, Jefferson’s Library description begins Nathaniel P. Poor, Catalogue. President Jefferson’s Library, 1829 description ends , 14 [no. 898]; TJ’s copy in PPAmP). lxx: the Septuagint, with TJ probably referring to volumes from the edition by John Ernest Grabe.

On 16 Aug. 1821 Mayo issued a receipt that he had “Recd of Phillip Evins Black man belonging to Govoner Randolph one Box of Books & package to be Bound which he Said belonged to Thos Jefferson” (MS in MHi; written on a small slip in the hand of H. Chubb and signed by him on behalf of Mayo; endorsed by Thomas Mann Randolph: “F. A. Mayo rect for Books of Th: Jefferson Aug. 1821”).

A missing letter of 10 Sept. 1821 from TJ to Mayo is recorded in SJL, with TJ’s additional bracketed notation: “inclosing LXX.”

1. Brackets in original.

2. Edge trimmed.

Index Entries

  • A Greek and English Manual Lexicon to the New Testament (J. H. Bass) search
  • agriculture; books on search
  • Anglo-Saxon (Old English) language; books on search
  • An Universal History, from the Earliest Account of Time to the Present search
  • Bass, J. H.; A Greek and English Manual Lexicon to the New Testament search
  • Bede, Saint; works of search
  • Bible; Septuagint search
  • Bible; works on search
  • books; dictionaries search
  • books; on agriculture search
  • books; on botany search
  • botany; books on search
  • English language; Anglo-Saxon (Old English) search
  • Evans, Philip (T. M. Randolph’s slave); delivers goods search
  • gardening; books on search
  • Grabe, John Ernest; editsSeptuaginta Interpretum search
  • Grammatica Anglo-Saxonica ex Hickesiano Linguarum Septentrionalium Thesauro Excerpta (G. Hickes) search
  • Greenway, James; herbarium and manuscript of search
  • Hatch, Frederick Winslow; books bound for search
  • Hickes, George; Grammatica Anglo-Saxonica ex Hickesiano Linguarum Septentrionalium Thesauro Excerpta search
  • Hone, William; editsThe Apocryphal New Testament, being all the Gospels, Epistles and other pieces now extant search
  • Jefferson, Thomas; Books & Library; bequests search
  • Jefferson, Thomas; Books & Library; preferred physical characteristics search
  • Junius, Franciscus; Quatuor D. N. Jesu Christi Evangeliorum Versiones perantiquæ duæ, Gothica scil. et Anglo-Saxonica (ed. T. Marshall) search
  • Marshall, Thomas; editsQuatuor D. N. Jesu Christi Evangeliorum Versiones perantiquæ duæ, Gothica scil. et Anglo-Saxonica (F. Junius) search
  • Mayo, Frederick August; binds books for TJ search
  • Mayo, Frederick August; letters to search
  • Mayo, Frederick August; letters to accounted for search
  • newspapers; BaltimoreNiles’ Weekly Register search
  • Niles’ Weekly Register (Baltimore newspaper) search
  • Observations on Modern Gardening (T. Whately) search
  • Owen, Thomas; translatesΓεωπονικά. Agricultural Pursuits search
  • Peyton, Bernard; and books for TJ search
  • Quatuor D. N. Jesu Christi Evangeliorum Versiones perantiquæ duæ, Gothica scil. et Anglo-Saxonica (F. Junius; ed. T. Marshall) search
  • Randolph, Thomas Mann (1768–1828) (TJ’s son-in-law; Martha Jefferson Randolph’s husband); delivers goods search
  • Randolph, Thomas Mann (1768–1828) (TJ’s son-in-law; Martha Jefferson Randolph’s husband); slaves owned by search
  • Septuaginta Interpretum (ed. J. E. Grabe) search
  • The Apocryphal New Testament, being all the Gospels, Epistles and other pieces now extant (ed. W. Hone) search
  • Whately, Thomas; Observations on Modern Gardening search
  • Γεωπονικά. Agricultural Pursuits (trans. T. Owen) search

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Thomas Jefferson to Frederick A. Mayo, 12 August 1821, with Jefferson’s Note
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Jefferson, Thomas
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Mayo, Frederick A.
Date
12 August 1821

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“Thomas Jefferson to Frederick A. Mayo, 12 August 1821, with Jefferson’s Note,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-17-02-0354. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 17, 1 March to 30 November 1821, ed. J. Jefferson Looney et al. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020, pp. 411–412.]

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