Fernagus De Gelone to Thomas Jefferson, 31 May 1817
From Fernagus De Gelone
New York 31rst May 1817.
Sir
I was establishing a dépôt for foreign Books in Philadelphia when your letter came to my hands. I Sent you then according to your directions the 1rst and Second volumes of Cormon’s french and spanish Dictionary by mail, in two different days. the Architecture of Vitruvius had been Sold.
To day I direct to Messrs Gibson & Jefferson, a copy of Théâtre d’Aristophane, 4 vol. in 8vo by one of the trading Sloops playing from New York to Richmond.
Your bill then Stands thus:
| Géometrie d’Euclide, par Peyrard. 1. 8vo | 2. | 50 | |
| Cormon, Dictionnaire français & Espagnol. 2. 8vo | 4 | 87½ | |
| Théâtre d’Aristophane. 4. 8vo | 7. | 00 | |
| $14. | 37½ |
J Louis Fernagus De Gelone
RC (MHi); endorsed by TJ as received 11 June 1817 and so recorded in SJL; with additional notation by TJ beneath endorsement: “June 19. inclosed 15.D.” RC (MHi); address cover only; with PoC of TJ to Fernagus De Gelone, 19 June 1817, on verso; addressed: “Thomas Jefferson Monticello. Milton Va”; franked; postmarked New York, 31 May.
With this letter Fernagus De Gelone probably enclosed a receipt to himself from Henry Butler, New York, 31 May 1817, in which Butler, describing himself as master of the schooner Sea Lion, accepts “a bundle of paper directed to Thomas Jefferson, Monticello, Milton, Va Care of Messrs Gibson & Jefferson, Richmond, Va which I engage to deliver to the Said Gentlemen in Richmond, on their paying me for freight, twenty-five-cents” (MS in MHi; in Butler’s hand; endorsed by TJ: “Fernagus de Gelone”).
Index Entries
- Abregé des Dix Livres d’Architecture de Vitruve (Vitruvius; ed. C. Perrault) search
- architecture; books on search
- Aristophanes; Théatre d’Aristophane, avec les fragmens de Ménandre et de Philémon (trans. L. Poinsinet de Sivry) search
- books; dictionaries search
- books; on architecture search
- Butler, Henry (ship captain) search
- Cormon, Jacques Louis Barthélemi; Dictionnaire portatif et de prononciation, Espagnol-Français et Français-Espagnol search
- Dictionnaire portatif et de prononciation, Espagnol-Français et Français-Espagnol (J. L. B. Cormon) search
- Euclid; Les Élémens de Géométrie d’Euclide (F. Peyrard) search
- Fernagus De Gelone, Jean Louis; letters from search
- Fernagus De Gelone, Jean Louis; TJ’s account with search
- Gibson & Jefferson (Richmond firm); and books acquired by TJ search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Books & Library; works sent to search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; account with J. L. Fernagus De Gelone search
- Les Élémens de Géométrie d’Euclide (F. Peyrard) search
- Perrault, Claude; editsAbregé des Dix Livres d’Architecture de Vitruve (Vitruvius) search
- Peyrard, François; translatesLes Élémens de Géométrie d’Euclide (Euclid) search
- Poinsinet de Sivry, Louis; translatesThéatre d’Aristophane, avec les Fragmens de Ménandre et de Philémon (Aristophanes) search
- Sea Lion (schooner) search
- Théatre d’Aristophane, avec les fragmens de Ménandre et de Philémon (Aristophanes; trans. L. Poinsinet de Sivry) search
- Vitruvius; Abregé des Dix Livres d’Architecture de Vitruve (ed. C. Perrault) search