1From Thomas Jefferson to John Laval, 12 September 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
You were so kind, the last autumn, as to undertake to import for me Russell’s view of education in the Universities of England and Scotland, and you thought you might recieve it the last spring. will you be so good as to inform me whether it may still be expected. accept my friendly & respectful salutations. P.S. how stands my account with you? for I have lost sight of it. Privately owned.
2From Thomas Jefferson to John Laval, 30 April 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your favor of the 16 th and must accept your offer of sending the English copy of Las Casas of which you say that 2. vols have appeared, and 2. others are soon expected, sending them volume by volume by successive mails: regretting at the same time to recieve the dicta of Buonaparte in any other than his own words. Wilson’s work is too expensive for the purchase of an...
3From Thomas Jefferson to John Laval, 11 February 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of the 5 th is just recieved & I now inclose you 10.D. to cover the balance of 6D.25 the surplus to remain on account between us. you have obliged me much by writing to England for the books. I would not chuse to recieve M ds Campon in English, but whenever you can get a French copy I will thank you for it. I shall be glad if you can send me Delaplace’s Exposition du Systeme du Monde in...
4Thomas Jefferson to John Laval, 8 August 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I do not know the state of our account but I think I have had something of you since my last remittance, & to which I ought to have adverted sooner. be so good as to favor me with a statement of it, and I shall immediately attend to it. if you have Planche ’s Greek & French dictionary I should be glad of it. I salute you with esteem & respect. PoC ( DLC ); on verso of reused address cover of...
5From Thomas Jefferson to John Laval, 16 August 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
There is a book which I am extremely anxious to get entitled ‘A view of the system of educn in the schools & Universities of Scotland with an Appendix E t c by Russel. Edinburgh 1822.’ it would be of the greatest service to me in preparing the regulns for our University, now nearly compleated. if to be had in Philadelphia I must pray you to get it for me, or, if not there and to be had either...
6Thomas Jefferson to John Laval, 5 July 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of June 24. is recieved, and so also the package of books first sent, & Sanxay by mail. Grimm will be here also in time. the balance of 4.50 in my favor when mr Dufief went away, agrees with my own memorandums: and the balance of 63.D. now in his favor will be attended to. it will experience a short delay however. the crisis of the times is not unfelt by the farmer. the...
7From Thomas Jefferson to John Laval, 13 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved the 4. vols of Las Casas, & have to ask the favor of you to send me a copy of the Nautical almanac for this & the next years, and 2. copies of Phædrus’s fables in Latin for school boys, by successive mails, sending also my account which shall be promptly remitted. MiU-C .
8Thomas Jefferson to John Laval, 12 March 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 3 d was received on the 10 th . I was at the time & now am engageg engaged in the sale of the produce of my farms of the last year which will be soon accomplished and your balance shall be remitted, say in the course of the present month. it should not have waited till now but for the unexampled drought from June last which kept the river which carries our produce to market,...
9Thomas Jefferson to John Laval, 30 September 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of Aug. 23. was rec d on the 6 th inst, and I have so thus long waited to remit my balance, and of 13.97 endeavoring to get bills of the US. bank . it was not till the day before yesterday I could get them, for they are rarely seen in circulation in our country situation. I now inclose 15.D in that currency. should you meet with one of Planche ’s lexicons Gr. & Fr. remember me. I...
10Thomas Jefferson to John Laval, 27 March 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you on the 23 d inclosing 72.D. the amount of my account. I have now to request you to procure me a copy of Aeschylus with a Latin translation, the Latin on distinct leaves both recto and verso: because I wish to interleave them in the edition of du Theil . an 8 vo would be best, but 12 mo might do if an 8 vo edn can not be found. I care nothing about binding, or the Greek leaves, as...