1To Thomas Jefferson from Richard Paul Jodrell, 28 February 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
The Author of The Persian Heroine, having received from Mr. Jefferson Mr. Wythe’s book of Virginia, intreats his acceptance of the inclosed Tragedy. RC ( MHi ); endorsed: “Joddrell.” Recorded in SJL as received 25 May 1787 at Bordeaux. The enclosed quarto edition of Jodrell’s The Persian Heroine , London, 1786, was probably not received with the covering letter but left at the Hôtel de Langeac...