1Thomas Jefferson to Nicolas G. Dufief, 29 September 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your favor with the prospectus of your dictionary, and shall gladly become a subscriber to it. altho the number only but not the size of the volumes is stated, I presume from the price they must be 8 vos altho’ from the matter one might have expected Grand formats. the 3 d vol. especially will be valuable to have always at one’s elbow, and your former work is a pledge of...
2Thomas Jefferson to Nicolas G. Dufief, 4 August 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved some time ago your valuable dictionary , and have now had time & trial enough to pronounce it the very best French & English dictionary which has ever been published. it’s handy size too increases it’s convenience. the 3 d volume is a treasure. I only wish it’s numerous alphabets had been digested into a single one to save the double research first for the proper alphabet, & then...
3Thomas Jefferson to Nicolas G. Dufief, 3 May 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
I see on your catalogue the following books. pa. 32. Xenophontis opuscula politica, equestria, et venatica. pa. 56. Nicolai Gurtleri lexicon quatuor linguarum. 8 vo Nomenclatura trilinguis, Anglo-Latino-Graeca. 8 vo I will thank you to send these to me by mail, only observing to send one volume only at a time, and a week apart from one another, that I may not too much encumber any one mail;...
4Thomas Jefferson to Nicolas G. Dufief, 27 October 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson asks the favor of M. Dufief to procure him the books below stated, if to be had in Philadelphia . he thinks it probable that Doct r Patterson , professor of Mathematics, would be most likely to know where books of that department of science would be probably found, should M. Dufief be at a loss himself. D r Patterson would do Th:J. the favor of advising on this subject. none of...
5Thomas Jefferson to Nicolas G. Dufief, 25 December 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
On my return from a journey after an absence of 5. or 6 weeks, I found here your favor of Nov. 5. with Mellish’s map & Simpson’s fluxions. I did not expect to find Philadelphia so little furnished with Mathematical books. my own attachment to the exact sciences has made them the principal enjoiment of my leisure hours. perhaps I may be more succesful in the classical line, in asking for copies...
6Thomas Jefferson to Nicolas G. Dufief, 9 January 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved last night your favor of the 4 th with the Elzevir Livy, which, having your permission, I now return because I already possess that edition, and it is too small in it’s type for my eyes. I possess also the 4 to Delphin edition . but I dislike such cumbersome volumes. having a desire to give Livy a reading at this time, I wished a handy edition and of a type suited to a Septagenary....
7Thomas Jefferson to Nicolas G. Dufief, 11 February 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you for the trouble you have taken to find a copy of Livy for me. that which you mention in your letter of the 1 st inst. just now recieved, will answer perfectly, & probably better than Maittaire’s which I only named exempli gratiâ of the kind I wanted. be so good as to make it up into packages of 2. or 3. vols only together, sending the packages weekly, to avoid burthening our mail...
8Thomas Jefferson to Nicolas G. Dufief, 21 May 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Collecting the amount of the several books you have been so kind as to send me, as nearly as I can from the letters accompanying them, I conjecture it to be about 30.D. but lest I should err I have desired my Richmond correspondents Gibson & Jefferson to remit you 40.D. which if over the amount may stand in account for further calls of books, and if less than the amount you must be so good as...
9Thomas Jefferson to Nicolas G. Dufief, 24 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson asks the favor of M. Dufief to send him the books noted below, always bearing in mind the Weekly mission in small parcels for the ease of the mail: and also to note to him the prices that he may make his remittances at convenient intervals. Tull’s horsehoeing husbandry, an old book in 8 vo Young’s Experiments in Agriculture. (I think it is in 3. vols. 8 vo ) Memoirs of Theophilus...
10Thomas Jefferson to Nicolas G. Dufief, 22 August 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
I am desirous of sending to mr John Adams late Presid t of the US. at Quincy, Mass. a copy of Priestley’s ‘Doctrines of heathen philosophy compared with those of revelation’ printed at Northumberland Pensva in 1804. will you be so good as to procure one, and inclose it to him by mail ‘ de ma part .’ be so good as to chuse the best binding you find ready prepared, and to place the article to my...