Thomas Jefferson Papers

John W. Campbell to Thomas Jefferson, 20 December 1811

From John W. Campbell

Petersburg Dec: 20th 1811

Dear Sir!

I have taken the liberty of enclosing you a proposal for a work which I expect to publish during the next Summer.

I have progressed in this work, as far as the year Seventy Six, but for the period, subsequent to that, I find it extremely difficult to procure materials.

I would be much gratified by your advice as to the best sources of information; [an]d if you have any thing, that would yield [any?] assistance, particularly in the period subsequent to the revolution, you would do me a singular favour by lending it for a few months.

Excuse my freedom, & accept for your health and happiness the best wishes of

Dear Sir Yr mo: obdt Svt

John W. Campbell

RC (DLC); damaged at seal; endorsed by TJ as received 5 Jan. 1812 and so recorded in SJL.

The enclosed proposal, not found, was a prospectus for Campbell’s History of Virginia, from Its Discovery Till the Year 1781: with Biographical Sketches of all the most distinguished characters that occur in the colonial, revolutionary, or subsequent period of our history (Philadelphia, 1813).

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