11To Thomas Jefferson from John V. Kean, 22 August 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
There came sa t morning 3 boxes of books: I have not opened them yet, but in reading over the catalogue of their contents I find, a copy of, ✓ Pinkertons’ Geography ✓ Leland’s Demosthenes ✓ Northern Antiquities (of Europe) translated from Mallet, by Percy— Cleaveland’s Mineralogy—all of which we already have. If you do not wish to retain a duplicate of the same work, am I authorised to deliver...
12From Thomas Jefferson to John V. Kean, 10 September 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
I send you a donation from mr Wm. Mclure of ‘Michaux’ North American Sylva by Millhouse in 7 parts Ovo. by which title be pleased to insetion your Supplementary catalogue Chapter 12. Botany. ViCMRL .
13To Thomas Jefferson from John V. Kean, 25 September 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Agreeably to your directions I have brought back from Mr Jones’s ‘Bancroft,’‘Calvini Lexicon. judicum,’ & taken a copy of “Thomas’s Coke Littleton”; Mather’s Essay to do good he had sold. Neither “Raymond’s history” nor “Raymond’s Political œconomy” came to the library with the first boxes sent by Mr Hilliards; it is not in the box (no. 5) that came yesterday. and that completes the number of...
14To Thomas Jefferson from John V. Kean, 3 November 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
We received last night a large box of books from Mr Hilliards of which I suppose you have had some account: the books embrace almost every subject of science, Law medicine, History, Poetry &c. There came also by the same conveyance, a box of specimines of Mineralogy. Collected from various parts of Europe & the Northern States by Mr M c Lure, I believe. CSmH .
15To Thomas Jefferson from John V. Kean, 6 November 1825 (Jefferson Papers)
Your servant left me the other day before I had an opportunity of sending you the more particular account of the last arrival of books, which further examination afforded. We still recieve duplicates lastly “Herrara decadas de Indias ocid. ‘4. V 4 to and Gibbon’s Roman Empire 12 V. 8 vo I suppose this to originate from some mistake in the catalogue furnished to Mr Hilliards. Las casses Journal...