Mathew Carey to Thomas Jefferson, 4 February 1819
From Mathew Carey
Philada Feb. 4. 1819
Sir,
Your favour of the 29th ult. I have duly recd. It is now before me.
The fifteen Dollars enclosed are duly carried to your credit.
The Religious Olive Branch is not yet fairly begun. I was diverted from it by the shameful attack on my Country in that horror-inspiring novel Mandeville, which led me to undertake Vindiciæ Hibernicæ, which I shall publish in about a month. I enclose two half sheets as a sort of specimen.
To the Religious Olive Branch I shall devote all my attention & energies, as soon [as]1 the Vindiciæ are published. I consider myself sacredly pledged to it, &, life spared, I shall certainly redeem the pledge.
Mathew Carey
PS. We are about to publish Baines, corrected and improved in 8vo
RC (MHi); dateline beneath signature; at head of text: “Thomas Jefferson, Esqr”; endorsed by TJ as received 10 Feb. 1819 and so recorded in SJL. Enclosure not found.
The novel was William Godwin, Mandeville: A Tale of the Seventeenth Century in England, 3 vols. (Edinburgh, 1817), which deals with the aftermath of the Ulster rebellion of 1641.
1. Omitted word editorially supplied.
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