Robert Walsh to Thomas Jefferson, 21 October 1817
From Robert Walsh
Baltimore October 21st 1817
Dear Sir
When I mentioned to you the Dissertation of Professor Playfair on the progress of Mathematical and Physical Science, you expressed, I think, a wish to have the work. I therefore take the liberty of Sending it to you, and have no doubt but that it will give you particular pleasure, inasmuch as you have a strong relish for Mathematical Studies.
In examining an invoice of Books Sent Me from France, I perceive that there are but thirty One volumes of the “Annalles du Muséum,” and that the Cost of the whole was 527 francs with a deduction of 20 p.%. The proper title of the work relating to the architecture of Paris is—Les Edifices de Paris &c—
Mr Correa & myself arrived here yesterday, & had altogether a prosperous journey. We remained but two days at Richmond—a sufficient length of time, however, for a pretty minute Survey of that City.
As I mean to Spend the winter in Washington, it will be a great happiness to me, if I Can be in any manner useful to you there.—I offer my most respectful compliments to Colonel & Mrs Randolph, and the assurance of the lively gratitude which I feel for the nature of my reception at Monticello. You will be pleased to believe me, Dear Sir, earnestly Sincere when I add that I am, with the utmost veneration, Your obliged & obedient servt
Robert Walsh Jr
RC (MHi); at foot of text: “Thomas Jefferson Esqr”; endorsed by TJ as received 27 Oct. 1817 and so recorded in SJL. Enclosure: John Playfair, Dissertation Second, exhibiting a general view of the Progress of Mathematical and Physical Science, since the revival of letters in Europe (Boston, 1817; , 8 [no. 385]).
annalles du muséum: Annales du Musée et de l’école moderne des beaux-arts, ed. Charles P. Landon ( no. 4244). The work relating to the architecture of paris was probably Jacques G. Legrand and Landon, Description de Paris et de ses Édifices, 2 vols. (Paris, 1806–09; 2d ed., 1817).
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