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Mathew Carey to Thomas Jefferson, 26 January 1820

From Mathew Carey

Philada Jan. 26. 1820

Sir,

I take the liberty to send you a Copy of the Addresses of the Philadelphia Society for the protection of National Industry, of which I request your acceptance, & am

Very respectfully, Your obt hble servt

Mathew Carey

RC (MHi); dateline at foot of text; at head of text: “Thomas Jefferson Esqr”; endorsed by TJ as received 3 Feb. 1820 and so recorded in SJL.

Carey’s Addresses of the Philadelphia Society for the promotion of National Industry (1st ed., Philadelphia, 1819; Poor, Jefferson’s Library description begins Nathaniel P. Poor, Catalogue. President Jefferson’s Library, 1829 description ends , 11 [no. 707]) went through multiple editions, 1819–20. The work included excerpts on the subject of manufacturing from Benjamin Austin to TJ, 11 Dec. 1815, and TJ to Austin, 9 Jan. 1816 (pp. 157–61). Carey was a founder of the society in 1819 (ANB description begins John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes, eds., American National Biography, 1999, 24 vols. description ends ).

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Mathew Carey to Thomas Jefferson, 26 January 1820
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Carey, Mathew
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Jefferson, Thomas
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26 January 1820

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“Mathew Carey to Thomas Jefferson, 26 January 1820,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-15-02-0323. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 15, 1 September 1819 to 31 May 1820, ed. J. Jefferson Looney. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018, p. 356.]

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