11Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Milligan, 17 August 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just sent to Milton for the mail tumbrel a package addressed to the care of mr Gray , portage to Fredericksbg being first paid at Milton as it always will be. and you paying that from Fredericksbg to George town , we may save mr Gray the occasion of ever making any advances of money for what passes between us. the package contains 2. volumes which I wish to be divided the one into two,...
12Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Milligan, 11 August 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of July 31. came to hand the day before yesterday only. one of the boxes of books arrived ten days ago. the other is not yet come. the bill in your last letter is of 50½.D. another which came in your letter of May 6. from Fredericksbg was of 41½.D. there have been a few other books furnished of which I have never had a bill, nor know their amount. they were I believe but few; and...
13Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Milligan, 26 June 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote to you from Bedford the 1 st inst. to which I refer you if you have made a list of the books I forwarded for binding I would thank you for a copy, being at a loss sometimes to recollect whether a particular book was among them. indeed I shall be glad of the books themselves as soon as you can have them bound. I observe their there is a mail-tumbrel from Fredsbg weekly to Milton which...
14Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Milligan, 1 June 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
I keep at this place a small Polygraph which requir es paper exactly of the size of that now inclosed. I must ask the favor of you to send me a ream of that size. the quality too of the model is much liked, altho’ perhaps we do not make any such. I shall be glad also of another ream of 4 to letter paper for use at Monticello . that I now write on is about a good size. these may be packed and...
15Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Milligan, 28 March 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
By a letter from M r Sam l H. Smith I am informed that the President had engaged you to come on here as soon as I should be ready to examine and pack the library, and that mr Dougherty was to superintend the transportation. I have been a fortnight laboriously engaged in revising the books, & placing them on their shelves every one in the place and order in which it stands in the Catalogue....
16Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Milligan, 27 February 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
The library committee of Congress having concluded to take my library without further valuation, at the amount of your estimate, I shall on reciept of the catalogue proceed to review it, arrange and number all the books according as they stand in the catalogue. as on this review many will doubtless be found missing & irrecoverable, deductions proportioned to their size and number must of...
17Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Milligan, 1 December 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
1814. Dec. 1. wrote to mr Millegan to procure me Garnet ’s Naut. Almanac 15. to be forwarded by mail. & his d o for subseq t years. Blount ’s Naut. Alm. for 1815 & subsequent Stewart ’s elements of the Philos. of the human mind. 8 vo FC ( DLC
18Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Milligan, 24 November 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 16 th was recieved on the 19 th and I thank you for the trouble you have taken with my catalogue, and I have no doubt your enumeration is right, mine having been estimated by counting a few pages & taking them for an average. I am contented also with your estimate of price, if the committee should be so, or that they should send on valuers, fixing on your estimate as a...
19Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Milligan, 29 October 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you on the 17 th to which I presume I shall recieve an answer in due time. the packet of books mentioned in yours of the 12 th is not yet heard of. I mentioned this to mr Gray in a letter of the 25 th so that I suppose it will be forwarded, if it’s loitering is at Fredericksburg . The Library committee requires a proposition on my part as to the price of my library, & as a ground of...
20Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Milligan, 17 October 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
Your two letters of Sep. 24. & Oct. 12. have been duly recieved. the packet of books will probably come on by the next stage. by the present one I send to the care of mr Gray of Fredericksbg a packet of 6. vols, which though made up of 4. different works, I wish to have bound as one work in 6. vols, to be labelled on the back ‘the Book of Kings.’ the 1 st & 2 d vols will be the composed of the...