1Thomas Jefferson to Frederick A. Mayo, 30 November 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just made up two boxes of pamphlets which I send to Milton to be forwarded to you by the boats of that place so soon as the state of the river will permit. these contain 39 volumes of which 38. are to be half bound only, moderately gilt on the backs, lettered according to the papers stuck in them respectively, corresponding with the list on the next page, th and their leaves to be...
2Thomas Jefferson to Frederick A. Mayo, 21 December 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
Doubting whether my box of books may have yet got to your hands, on account of the low state of our river and having since recieved sundry pamphlets which I wish to have bound up with those sent, I now send them in a s eparate package by mail. each contains a direction into what volume it is to be inserted. I salute you respectfully PoC ( MHi ); on verso of portion of a reused address cover...
3Thomas Jefferson to Frederick A. Mayo, 15 March 1819, with Jefferson’s Note (Jefferson Papers)
In my letter of Nov. 30. I requested all the dispatch in binding the books I sent you, which the solidity of the work would admit, and when ready that you would send me notice and your bill and adding that with the order for payment I would direct how they should be forwarded. I have been in the daily expectation of recieving the bill and notice, and am impatient at being so long out of the...
4Thomas Jefferson to Frederick A. Mayo, 25 March 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday evening your favor of the 19 th and I now inclose you an order on mr Gibson for 25. D 37 ½ c which in addition to the amount of your account 18.37 ½ D includes 7.D. more for Fonblanque when you shall recieve it. I will then request you to send by mail the 2. vols separately and in different weeks that our village mail may not be overburthened. I would thank you to procure...
5Thomas Jefferson to Frederick A. Mayo, 9 April 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I am so well satisfied with your bindings that a box of books which I had made up to send to Millegan , I have addressed to you and sent it to Milton to be forwarded by Johnson ’s boat, being the particular one I trust with all my water carriage. be pleased to bind them all in your best manner, gilt and letter according to the labels, & above all solidly pressed. when ready, deliver them to...
6Thomas Jefferson to Frederick A. Mayo, 11 February 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been very painfully in arrears with you for the balance of D.28.37 ½ my last account. yet I assure you I have not been in fault. the general failures which took place in early summer exhausted at once my funds there, and a drought which commenced in July kept our river so low that no produce could be sent to Richmond to replenish them. it has never been till three days ago that our...
7Thomas Jefferson to Frederick A. Mayo, 28 December 1820 (Jefferson Papers)
I was very sorry to learn that you had suffered in the common calamities of the times, and still more so on seeing your stock in trade advertised by trustees. I have two considerable boxes of books, packed some time ago, containing upwards of 100. vols, which want binding. but not knowing whether you still carry on the binding business, I have suspended the sending them to you, until I can be...
8Thomas Jefferson to Frederick A. Mayo, 12 February 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I this day deliver to a boatman to be conveyed to you 2. boxes of books containing about 100. vols to be bound. inclosed is the list directing how they are to be bound, and in each volume you will find similar directions. they will be directed to the Compiler’s office. accept my respectful salutations. PoC ( MHi ); on verso of a reused address cover from James Monroe to TJ; at foot of text: “M...
9Thomas Jefferson to Frederick A. Mayo, 26 [February] 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 21 st is recieved. the number of the Portfolio, inserted with those of the Analectic magazine has been put in by mistake and may be thrown away. within a week another volume of the Weekly register will be closed. it will still wait awhile for it’s index. should I not be able to send it to you before you send away the volumes you are binding, be so good as to remember how...
10Thomas Jefferson to Frederick A. Mayo, 16 March 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I send by this mail the last volume of the Register and inclose in this letter the title page and index of the preceding volume which had been mislaid. I shall hope soon to hear that the whole are delivered to Capt Peyton and to recieve your account. I salute you with respect. PoC ( MHi ); on verso of a reused address cover from James Madison to TJ; at foot of text: “ M r Mayo ”; endorsed by...
11Thomas Jefferson to Frederick A. Mayo, 11 May 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I am just returned home after an absence of some time and find here your letter of the 5 th . your former favors had also come to hand and the books safely arrived, and their execution entirely approved. the remittance of the amount of your account only awaits my being able to get to Richmond a parcel of flour which will be ready in about 10. days and will be immediately forwarded to Cap t...
12Thomas Jefferson to Frederick A. Mayo, 19 June 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 4 th has been recieved, and on examining your account I find that Munford ’s Index is omitted. it’s price 6.D. will therefore be paid to you by the kindness of Cap t Peyton on presenting him this letter . Accept the assurance of my esteem and respect. PoC ( MHi ); on verso of reused address cover of John Vaughan to TJ, 12 Apr. 1821 ; at foot of text: “M r
13Thomas Jefferson to Frederick A. Mayo, 12 August 1821, with Jefferson’s Note (Jefferson Papers)
The Governor returning to Richmond in a carriage , takes charge of a box of books which I request you to bind for me. in the box I have put a volume [ Bede ’s Ecclesiastical history] as a model for all the bindings, only that the backs may be a little richer gilt. I wish you to do them for me as speedily as you can and deliver them when done to Col o Peyton , sending me a bill of the cost...
14Thomas Jefferson to Frederick A. Mayo, 3 December [1821] (Jefferson Papers)
Dec. 3. wrote that I had acknol d rec t of my books before my departure to Bedf d & that if he would send my bill I would order payment by return of mail. FC ( MHi ); abstract in TJ’s hand on verso of RC of Mayo to TJ, 26 Nov. 1821 ; partially dated. Recorded in SJL as a letter of 3 Dec. 1821.
15Thomas Jefferson to Frederick A. Mayo, 3 January 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
At the time of recieving your letter of Oct. 29. I did not advert that an answer was required to that part which mentioned your thought of removing to Washington . your subsequent one of Dec. 7. first called my attention to it. there is at George-town a mr Millegan , a boo an Englishman and bookbinder equal to any in America . he always bound for me until I transferred my work in that way to...
16Thomas Jefferson to Frederick A. Mayo, 7 February 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
It has not been till this day that I am enabled to make you the remittance for your last account . I now inclose you an order for 50.D. on mess rs Wolf & Raphael at Richmond . the odd 25. cents must go into our next account. with I salute you with much esteem. PoC ( MHi ); on verso of reused address cover to TJ; at foot of text: “M r
17Thomas Jefferson to Frederick A. Mayo, 19 February 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
The package which accompanies this is of the 2. first volumes of a work , of which I will send the two last by the next mail to avoid burthening it too much at a time. I like the stile of the last bindings you did for me from a plain yellow model I sent you, making the backs a little richer. be so good as to do these in the same way as expeditiously as is admitted by the solid pressing which I...
18Thomas Jefferson to Frederick A. Mayo, 2 March 1822 (abstract) (Jefferson Papers)
wrote to him for Johnsons & Warner ’s edn of 1813. of Johnson ’s dict. FC ( MHi ); abstract in TJ’s hand at foot of text of PoC of TJ to Mayo, 19 Feb. 1822 ; on verso of a reused address cover of Joel Yancey to TJ. Not recorded in SJL .
19Thomas Jefferson to Frederick A. Mayo, 14 June 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I sent you the other day about 20. small volumes to be bound. when ready be pleased to deliver them securely done up in strong paper, to Col o Peyton who will forward them by a waggon, and at the same time send me your bill which shall be promptly paid. a remember always to put silk tapes into the volumes . I salute you with friendship and respect. P.S. do not forget the Johnson ’s dict y
20From Thomas Jefferson to Frederick A. Mayo, 6 November 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved in good order and bound to my mind the 21–vols petit format which you bound last for me, and I this day desire Col o Peyton to pay your bill which be pleased to present to him. I have mislaid for the moment that you sent me and therefore could not name to him the exact sum. Accept the assurance of my respect and best wishes MHi .
21From Thomas Jefferson to Frederick A. Mayo, 20 November 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
When I desired Col o Peyton to pay your account I had mislaid it & only recollected the last 21. vols. your letter of the 12 th instant brings to my mind the vols previously done. on your presenting this lre to Col o P. he will pay up for me what his former paim t wanted of 24.37 ½ the whole amount. accept my frdly salutns MHi .
22From Thomas Jefferson to Frederick A. Mayo, 13 October 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you a volume to be bound with as much dispatch as good pressure will admit. do it in red marocco with gilt leaves, and 2. or 3. leaves of good writing paper at the beginning and end blank which will admit writing on. Send it throug the mail as soon as ready. I have a good many volumes ready for you which only await a safe conveyance. I salute you with esteem and respect. P.S. letter...