1Fernagus De Gelone to Thomas Jefferson, 24 January 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
hoping that You enjoy a very good health, I take the liberty to inform you that I have determined to Settle in Paris , with the view of bettering my book-Selling-Establishment in New York . M r Lewis D. Belair will Succeed to me and do business there in his own name. I have found that, when I am in America , it is a very difficult, slow and costly matter to get an assortment from Europe ,...