Thomas Jefferson to Lewis D. Belair, 23 November 1818
To Lewis D. Belair
Monticello Nov. 23. 18.
Sir
I have just recieved from Mr Redory the information asked as to the rest of the books named in my letters of Oct. 27. & 31. and I request you to lay by for me the Pliny Fr. & Lat. the Dictionnaire Bibliographe, and Denis d’Halicarnasse. I presume I may expect in a very few days answers to the enquiries of my letter of Nov. 16. respecting Epictetus, le Gendre, Carnot & Euler, which will enable me to decide which of them I take, and will put me in possession of information as to the amount of the whole I shall have decided for, when I will immediately remit you the amount and direct the conveyance of the books. but as I should be glad to recieve the Dictionnaire Bibliographique by a quicker conveyance, I would be glad you would send a volume at a time by mail, and each a week apart, a precaution I wish to take that I may not overburthen any one of our mails. direct them to me at Monticello [. . .] [Char]lottes[ville] and accept the assurance of my respect.
Th: Jefferson
PoC (MHi); on verso of reused address cover of RC of Peter Poinsot to TJ, 18 May 1818; torn at seal, with two words rewritten by TJ; at foot of text: “M. Belair”; endorsed by TJ.
Index Entries
- Belair, Lewis Descoins; letters to search
- Belair, Lewis Descoins; TJ orders books from search
- Bellanger, François; translatesLes Antiquités Romaines (Dionysius of Halicarnassus) search
- books; classical search
- books; on mathematics search
- Brunet, Jacques Charles; editsDictionnaire Bibliographique, Historique et Critique des Livres Rares search
- Carnot, Lazare Nicolas Marguerite; Réflexions sur la Métaphysique du Calcul Infinitésimal search
- de Sacy, Louis; translatesLettres de Pline le Jeune, en Latin et en Français, Suivies du Panégyrique de Trajan (Pliny the Younger) search
- de Sacy, Louis; translatesPanégyrique de Trajan, par Pline le Jeune, en Latin et en Français (Pliny the Younger) search
- Dictionnaire Bibliographique, Historique et Critique des Livres Rares (eds. R. Duclos and J. C. Brunet) search
- Dionysius of Halicarnassus; Les Antiquités Romaines (trans. F. Bellanger) search
- Duclos, R.; editsDictionnaire Bibliographique, Historique et Critique des Livres Rares search
- Élémens d’Algèbre (L. Euler; trans. J. G. Garnier) search
- Éléments de Géométrie (A. M. Legendre) search
- Enchiridion (Epictetus); Ἐπικτήτου Ἐγχειρίδιον. Manuale di Epitteto (trans. “E. Pilenejo” [G. M. Pagnini]) search
- Epictetus (Greek philosopher); Ἐπικτήτου Ἐγχειρίδιον. Manuale di Epitteto (trans. “E. Pilenejo” [G. M. Pagnini]) search
- Euler, Leonhard; Élémens d’Algèbre (trans. J. G. Garnier) search
- Garnier, Jean Guillaume; translatesÉlémens d’Algèbre (L. Euler) search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Books & Library; orders books search
- Legendre, Adrien Marie; Éléments de Géométrie search
- Les Antiquités Romaines (Dionysius of Halicarnassus; trans. F. Bellanger) search
- Lettres de Pline le Jeune, en Latin et en Français, Suivies du Panégyrique de Trajan (Pliny the Younger; trans. L. de Sacy) search
- mathematics; books on search
- Pagnini, Giuseppe Maria; translatesἘπικτήτου Ἐγχειρίδιον. Manuale di Epitteto (Epictetus) search
- Panégyrique de Trajan, par Pline le Jeune, en Latin et en Français (Pliny the Younger; trans. L. de Sacy) search
- Pliny the Younger; Lettres de Pline le Jeune, en Latin et en Français, Suivies du Panégyrique de Trajan (trans. L. de Sacy) search
- Pliny the Younger; Panégyrique de Trajan, par Pline le Jeune, en Latin et en Français (trans. L. de Sacy) search
- Redon, Francois; as agent of L. D. Belair search
- Réflexions sur la Métaphysique du Calcul Infinitésimal (L. N. M. Carnot) search
- Ἐπικτήτου Ἐγχειρίδιον. Manuale di Epitteto (Epictetus; trans. “E. Pilenejo” [G. M. Pagnini]) search