1From Thomas Jefferson to John Laval, 12 September 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
You were so kind, the last autumn, as to undertake to import for me Russell’s view of education in the Universities of England and Scotland, and you thought you might recieve it the last spring. will you be so good as to inform me whether it may still be expected. accept my friendly & respectful salutations. P.S. how stands my account with you? for I have lost sight of it. Privately owned.
2From Thomas Jefferson to John Laval, 25 February 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Feb. 25. approv d his not send g 4 to ed n but desired 8 vo when he could get it and also M de Campon in Fr. DLC .
3From Thomas Jefferson to John Laval, 11 February 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of the 5 th is just recieved & I now inclose you 10.D. to cover the balance of 6D.25 the surplus to remain on account between us. you have obliged me much by writing to England for the books. I would not chuse to recieve M ds Campon in English, but whenever you can get a French copy I will thank you for it. I shall be glad if you can send me Delaplace’s Exposition du Systeme du Monde in...
4From Thomas Jefferson to John Laval, 7 December 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
The 1 st vol. of Aristotle is recieved as the 2 d I doubt not will soon be. I shall be glad to recieve the 4. additional vol s of Las Casas, 12 mo in boards. if a French copy of Mad e Campon’s, memoirs is to be had, be so good as to send it to me, and to let that come first, as the sending by successive mails is always to be observed. I am afraid I shall trespass too much on your kindness in...
5From Thomas Jefferson to John Laval, 4 October 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I am very much obliged by your kind endeavors to obtain for me Russel’s view of the system of education in the Universities of Scotland, Cambridge E t c. as these have failed, and I count on much information from it useful to our University I will avail myself of your kind proposition to import the book with as little delay as your convenience will admit. this may be in time for our purposes....
6From Thomas Jefferson to John Laval, 16 August 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
There is a book which I am extremely anxious to get entitled ‘A view of the system of educn in the schools & Universities of Scotland with an Appendix E t c by Russel. Edinburgh 1822.’ it would be of the greatest service to me in preparing the regulns for our University, now nearly compleated. if to be had in Philadelphia I must pray you to get it for me, or, if not there and to be had either...
7From Thomas Jefferson to John Laval, 13 June 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved the 4. vols of Las Casas, & have to ask the favor of you to send me a copy of the Nautical almanac for this & the next years, and 2. copies of Phædrus’s fables in Latin for school boys, by successive mails, sending also my account which shall be promptly remitted. MiU-C .
8From Thomas Jefferson to John Laval, 30 April 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved your favor of the 16 th and must accept your offer of sending the English copy of Las Casas of which you say that 2. vols have appeared, and 2. others are soon expected, sending them volume by volume by successive mails: regretting at the same time to recieve the dicta of Buonaparte in any other than his own words. Wilson’s work is too expensive for the purchase of an...
9From Thomas Jefferson to John Laval, 7 April 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
Presuming that Las Cases’s book respecting Bonaparte in French must by this time have come to Philade I will ask the favor of you to send me a copy, and if of more than 1. vol. to let them come by successive mails, with a note of the price which shall be promptly remitted. I salute you with esteem and respect DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
10Thomas Jefferson to John Laval, [20 June 1822] (Jefferson Papers)
I was in hopes my letter of the 6 th would have got to hand with that of the 5 th and saved the trouble of yours of the 10 th . the whole has proceeded from the mail-delay of that of May 11. which did not come to hand until June 6 . all however is now right, the books are recieved, and I have this day desired Col o