Joseph Milligan to Thomas Jefferson, 18 January 1819
From Joseph Milligan
Georgetown January 18th 1819
Dear Sir
On the 15th instant I received the Box of Books to bind I exchanged two or three letters with Mr Gray of Fredericksburg befor I received them the delay has been between Fredericksburg and this place as during the frosty weather the steam boat has been laid up and the stages are not as yet regular but I trust the steam Boat will run again as the river is now entirely open and I trust as the weather yet remains mild that it will not again be closed this winter
Accept my best thanks for your kind caution in your Esteemed favour of the 12th respecting1 Ricardo my intention is to take of a very small Edition say five or six hundred one half of which I will have engaged with the Members of Congress & officers of Government
Your Books are now in the Binders hands and shall be finished as speedily as is consistant with good work
Some years ago I published Malthus on Population I See that he has lately published a third Volume which when I can get I will put to press it is very highly spoken of When I get Ricardo through the press I will Send you a Copy
Joseph Milligan
RC (DLC); endorsed by TJ as received 22 Jan. 1819 and so recorded in SJL. RC (DLC); address cover only; with PoC of TJ to Wilson Cary Nicholas, 28 Jan. 1819, on verso; addressed: “Thomas Jefferson Esqr Monticello Milton virginia”; franked; postmarked (faint) Georgetown, [1]8 Jan.
Milligan’s earlier edition of the work of Thomas R. malthus was An Essay on the Principle of Population; or, a View of its Past and Present Effects on Human Happiness, 2 vols. (first American ed., Washington, 1809; for an earlier ed. see no. 2938). Malthus had lately published updates to the work as Additions to the Fourth and Former Editions of An Essay on the Principle of Population (London, 1817).
1. Manuscript: “respeting.”
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- Additions to the Fourth and Former Editions of An Essay on the Principle of Population (T. R. Malthus) search
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- On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation (D. Ricardo) search
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