21Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Milligan, 13 April 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I have mr Adams ’s permission to make what use I think proper of the inclosed letter on the adjoining leaf , in recommendation of the study of Tracy ’s book on Political economy. in fact the nation, and especially the wealthier portion of it which is in possession of our legislature the function of legislation , is
22Thomas 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...
23Thomas 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...
24Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Milligan, 8 September 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
You must excuse me, dear Sir, if I trouble you with my inexpressible anxieties about the delay of publication of mr Tracy ’s book, as I hear nothing of it’s commencement altho’ you assured me it should be begun the 4 th of July. mr Tracy ’s complaints of me give me a right to complain highly of mr Duane , and now turn to you. pray let me hear from you, and say only what I may depend will be...
25Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Milligan, 9 December 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I sent yesterday to Milton a box of books to be forwarded to you by mr Gray . it contains 32. volumes to be bound. there is in each a note how it is to be lettered, and some of these notes express that the book is to have a neat plain binding. all the rest are to be bound in your best manner. I wish you could see the books I recieve from Paris . they are equal to the best English work in...
26From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Milligan, 16 August 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Can you inform me whether there has been a 2 d edn of Tracy’s Pol. econ. published in the US. from your first, and where? how many copies did you print of the 1 st edn and have all or what proportion been sold? you will oblige me by this informn. Accept my frdly esteem & respect. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
27Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Milligan, 28 February 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved duly your favor of the 3 d and with it the 3. vols of the Parent’s assistant, for which I thank you. it was very acceptable to my grandchildren & therefore to me. I shall also be glad to recieve the Tales of fashionable life when published. I had delayed asking you to forward your account until you could send me the 7 th & 8 th vols of the Scientific dialogues. but as it seems it...
28Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Milligan, 18 February 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I have recieved the box of books lately sent me, in good condition and well bound, and I this day send you another of 10. or 12. vols, which I will pray you to bind and return with all the dispatch the solidity of the work will admit , . the Tacitus I particularly want. I rec d also the vols of Grimm from mr Walsh , the 2. vols of Cook for mr Carr which are delivered to him, & the
29Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Milligan, 18 May 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I have recieved safely the Tacitus and other books sent you to be bound, except ‘a Treatise on internal navigation ’ in small 8 vo which I am in hopes you have. it may be sent me by mail. should it by any accident have got mislaid or lost, as it was printed in N. York , I would pray you to get it from there & send it by mail, well bound. it is important to me as I am just about building some...
30Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Milligan, 9 April 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
The box of books came to hand the evening before last in good order, and I this day send to mr Lietch the 8. copies of Tracy & 3. of the Gardening books . I shall be glad to recieve without delay the statement of my account with you, the amount of which shall be promptly remitted. PoC ( DLC ); on verso of portion of a reused address cover from Joseph C. Cabell to TJ; at foot of text: “ M r...
31Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Milligan, 11 February 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
The last letter recieved from you was of Aug. 20. on the 27 th Oct. I wrote you a statement of our balance 136.75 D and that I should that day write to mr Gibson to remit it to you. I wrote to him the next day , and the day following set out for Bedford and was absent two months, so that I never heard from mr Gibson of the actual remittance. so that yet I have no reason to doubt it, and the...
32Thomas 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...
33Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Milligan, 23 September 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I am now returned and ready to recieve & dispatch as many proof sheets as you can send me, and the thicker and faster the better, as I expect within a month to visit Poplar Forest again. I salute you with esteem & respect PoC ( DLC ); on verso of reused address cover to TJ; dateline at foot of text; endorsed by TJ. Milligan was to send TJ proof sheets of Destutt de Tracy , Treatise on...
34Thomas 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,...
35Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Milligan, 27 January 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I n am in the daily hope of recieving new proof sheets and the particular wish that we may go thro’ the work before April, because I shall then go to Bedford and be absent a month. I do not know how our account stands; I mean independantly of the 60.D. for the translation; for I do not wish that reimbursement until you have made it by the sale of the book. if you will send me my account,...
36Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Milligan, 27 October 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
The answers to letters which had accumulated during a two months seven weeks absence in Bedford , and the daily calls of my own affairs here have delayed longer than I expected the examination promised in my letter of the 5 th into the paiment I beleived I had made of for the early volumes of Wilson ’s ornithology. I was led astray too in my researches by an idea that that paiment had been made
37Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Milligan, 19 March 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
The last proof sheet I recieved from you was to pa. 48. Mar. 1. and dispatched it Mar. 2. I am anxious to get as forward as possible, as 4. weeks hence I go to Bedford , & shall be absent 4. weeks. I send thro’ the care of mr Gray a small box, containing Homer 9. vols, Juvenal 4. vols, & Horace 2. vols, to be bound as they are tied up. I wish them to be done in your handsomest & solidest...
38Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Milligan, 18 May 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
On the 7 th Ult. I wrote to you and forwarded at the same time the corrected translation of mr Tracy ’s book, with a request that you would forward to me for correction the proof sheets as they are struck off, and as we have three mails a week now from Washington , you will always recieve the sheet on the 5 th day after it comes from your hands, perhaps sometimes on the 7 th . having as yet...
39Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Milligan, 25 October 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved with great joy the compleat copy of the translation of Tracy ’s work. it will need no other Table of Contents than the Analytical table from page ix. to xxviii. mr Tracy had a particular wish it should be known that I revised the translation. on the next sheet leaf therefore I have addressed a letter to you which may be printed on a single leaf, and inserted between the title page &...
40Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Milligan, 21 July 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
In your letter of June 4. you informed me you would be ab le to begin Tracy ’s work by the 4 th of July. my responsibility to m r Tracy makes me expect with anxiety the Prospectus & proof sheets. I hope soon to begin to recieve them. they shall meet no delay from me. will you be so good as to send me the Miniature editions of Homer ’s
41Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Milligan, 26 September 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
In a letter to you of Feb. 28. in answer to yours of the 3 d of that month, I acknoleged & thanked you for the parent’s assistant, & expressed a willingness to receive the Tales of fashionable life when published. to a former request of the 7 th & 8 th vols of Scientific dialogues, I added one for Mitford’s history of Greece , if an 8 vo edition could be had, and also for the 4 th