Thomas Jefferson to James Eastburn & Company, 2 April 1819, with Jefferson’s Note
To James Eastburn & Company, with Jefferson’s Note
Monticello Apr. 2. 19.
Sir
I have just recieved your Catalogue and note below some books which I shall be glad to recieve. they should be packed in a box, addressed to me to the care of Capt Bernard Peyton at Richmond to which place vessels are departing from N. York, weekly & almost daily. my distance will doubtless have occasioned me to be anticipated as to some of the books by other purchasers. as soon therefore as you can let me know which of them remain unsold and will come on, I will remit to you their amount. I salute you with respect
Th: Jefferson
| 158[2.] | Epicteti encheiridion cum com. Simplicii et Arriani. 3.D. |
| 158[7.] | [Eur]ipidis tragoediae curâ Barnes 8vo 6.D: if this contains only a part of the tragedies of Euripides, do not send it. |
| 1589. | In Euripiden Scholia Gr. 8vo 2.D. |
| 1760. | Stephani Thesaurus linguae Graecae. 4. v. fol. 36.D. |
| 2102. | Washington’s official letters. 2. v. 8vo 2.50 D |
| 2430. | Saunderson’s Algebra. 4th edn 8vo 1.75 D |
| 5005. | Lexicon Gr. Lat. ad formam Stephani et Scapulae. 4to 4.D. |
| 5007. | Bailey’s dictionary 8vo 2.50 D |
| 5029. | Fulton on Canals. 4to 3.75 D |
[Notation by TJ:]
Apr. <4> 7. added 5038. Miller’s Gardener’s Dict. 4to 6.50
PoC (DLC); on verso of reused address cover of Hugh Holmes to TJ, 6 Dec. 1818; damaged at seal; with second, fourth, and sixth book-list entries canceled, presumably by TJ when he modified his order in a 3 May 1819 letter to James Eastburn & Company; adjacent to signature: “Messrs Eastburn & co.”; endorsed by TJ.
The New York City bookselling firm of James Eastburn & Company was in operation from 1816–19 (New York Commercial Advertiser, 1 Nov. 1816, 19 Aug. 1819; [1818]: 119).
TJ’s missing book order of apr. 7 is not recorded in SJL.
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