Robert Walsh to Thomas Jefferson, 15 August 1817
From Robert Walsh
August 15t 1817 Mt Pleasant near Philadelphia
I have requested the Bookseller to transmit at once by Post to Mr Jefferson his Copy of the 2d Vol: of the American Register & to Correct with a pen the errors of phrase which would have been avoided, if my position had allowed me to revise the proof-sheets more attentively. I trust that Mr Jefferson will be pleased with my (too hasty) translation of Mr de Marbois’ work. I have the honor to be,
Robert Walsh Jr
RC (DLC); dateline at foot of text; addressed: “Thomas Jefferson Esqre”; endorsed by TJ as received 21 Sept. 1817 and so recorded in SJL.
Walsh’s translation of Barbé Marbois, Complot d’Arnold et de Sir Henry Clinton contre Les États-Unis d’Amérique et contre le Général Washington. Septembre 1780 (Paris, 1816; Poor, Jefferson’s Library, 4 [no. 138]; TJ’s copy in MoSW) appeared in the American Register; or Summary Review of History, Politics, and Literature (, 14 [no. 926]) 2 (1817): 3–63.
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