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Thomas Jefferson to Louis H. Girardin, 4 March 1815

To Louis H. Girardin

Monticello Mar. 4. 15.

Th:J. to mr Girardin.

I will with pleasure examine the Cahiers you have sent me. I send you Ramsay’s revoln, La Motte, 1st Toulongeon and the last Natl Intelligencer, and am sorry that the use of these and all other resources for you1 from my library are likely to be abridged so much. within 3. weeks from this time I expect waggons will be on from Washington to recieve the library, and before that date I shall be obliged to have every book in it’s place, arranged and numbered correspondingly with the catalogue for the inspection & reciept of the agent which shall come on from the Commee. I mention this that you may consider how to make the greatest advantage of this short interval.—on the three2 desiderata mentioned in your note, I can offer nothing new. I think you told me you had sent Bezout to mr Garnet forgetting I had bespoke it. if so, I would rather not deprive him of it. I am making out a catalogue for Paris which I shall be able to recieve this summer, and I would rather send for a new edition in which I see that his Course for the Artillery is embodied with that of Navigation3 in 5. vols, & the whole for 20. francs.

RC (PPAmP: Thomas Jefferson Papers); written on a small sheet; dateline at foot of text; addressed: “Mr Girardin Glenmore.” Not recorded in SJL.

The cahiers contained the manuscript, not found, of a portion of Burk, Jones, and Girardin, History of Virginia, vol. 4. The publications enclosed with this letter included either David ramsay’s history of the American Revolution or his history of the same period in South Carolina (Sowerby, description begins E. Millicent Sowerby, comp., Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, 1952–59, 5 vols. description ends nos. 488, 490); one of several works on a scandal just prior to the French Revolution involving Jeanne de Saint Remy de Valois, comtesse de la motte (Sowerby, description begins E. Millicent Sowerby, comp., Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, 1952–59, 5 vols. description ends nos. 227, 2228, 2229); François Emmanuel, vicomte de toulongeon, Histoire de France, depuis la Révolution de 1789 (Paris, 1801–06; Sowerby, description begins E. Millicent Sowerby, comp., Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, 1952–59, 5 vols. description ends no. 240; Poor, Jefferson’s Library description begins Nathaniel P. Poor, Catalogue. President Jefferson’s Library, 1829 description ends , 4 [no. 88]), 1st of 2 vols. as bound by TJ; and an unidentified issue of the Washington natl intelligencer. The agent of the congressional Joint Library Committee (the commee) coming to Monticello was Joseph Milligan. Girardin’s note, not found, is most likely the letter to TJ recorded in SJL as having been written and received on this date.

1. Preceding two words interlined.

2. TJ here canceled “subjects.”

3. Preceding two words interlined.

Index Entries

  • Bézout, Étienne; Cours de Mathématiques, a l’usage Des Gardes du Pavillion et de la marine search
  • Bézout, Étienne; Cours de Mathématiques, a l’Usage du Corps Royal de l’Artillerie search
  • books; on history search
  • books; on mathematics search
  • Burk, John Daly; The History of Virginia search
  • Cours de Mathématiques, a l’usage Des Gardes du Pavillion et de la marine (É. Bézout) search
  • Cours de Mathématiques, a l’Usage du Corps Royal de l’Artillerie (É. Bézout) search
  • Garnett, John; L. H. Girardin sends book to search
  • Girardin, Louis Hue; and J. D. Burk’s History of Virginia search
  • Girardin, Louis Hue; letters from accounted for search
  • Girardin, Louis Hue; letters to search
  • Girardin, Louis Hue; sends books search
  • Girardin, Louis Hue; TJ sends books to search
  • Histoire de France (F. E. Toulongeon) search
  • Jefferson, Thomas; Books & Library; catalogue of search
  • Jefferson, Thomas; Books & Library; sends books search
  • La Motte, Jeanne de Saint Remy de Valois, comtesse de; works on search
  • Library of Congress; and library committees of Congress search
  • Library of Congress; TJ prepares books for transportation search
  • Library of Congress; TJ’s catalogue of books sold to search
  • Library of Congress; transportation of TJ’s books to Washington search
  • mathematics; books on search
  • Milligan, Joseph; assists with packing and transportation of TJ’s library search
  • National Intelligencer (Washington newspaper); TJ sends search
  • Ramsay, David; historical writings of search
  • The History of Virginia (J. D. Burk, S. Jones, and L. H. Girardin); TJ’s role in the preparation of search
  • Toulongeon, François Emmanuel, vicomte de; Histoire de France search
  • Vie de Jeanne de St. Remy de Valois, ci-devant Comtesse de La Motte (J. La Motte; included in Book of Kings compiled by TJ) search
  • Virginia; historiography of search
  • wagons; and transportation of TJ’s library search

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Jefferson Papers
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Thomas Jefferson to Louis H. Girardin, 4 March 1815
Author
Jefferson, Thomas
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Girardin, Louis Hue
Date
4 March 1815

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“Thomas Jefferson to Louis H. Girardin, 4 March 1815,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-08-02-0244. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 8, 1 October 1814 to 31 August 1815, ed. J. Jefferson Looney. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011, pp. 309–310.]

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