To Thomas Jefferson from Philippe Reibelt, 28 January 1805
From Philippe Reibelt
Baltimore le 28 Janv. 1805
Monsieur le President!
Je m’empresse—de Vous accuser la reception de Votre Lettre du 25 avec incluses—qu’on vient de me remettre—de Vous en presenter mes remercimens respectueux, et de Vous annoncer, que j’ai deja hier—(sur une invitation de Mr. Wagner recue avanthier.) envoyè a Mr. le Secretaire d’Etat Madison l’atlas faisant partie du Tableau de l’Espagne moderne par Bourgoing.
Je Vous prie, de vouloir bien agreer mes hommages.
Reibelt
Editors’ Translation
Baltimore, 28 Jan. 1805
Mister President!
I hasten to acknowledge your letter of the 25th, with enclosures, which just reached me, and to convey my respectful thanks; and to inform you that, in response to a request from Mr. Wagner received the day before yesterday, I sent Secretary of State Madison yesterday the atlas from Bourgoing’s Tableau de l’Espagne moderne.
Please accept my regards.
Reibelt
RC (DLC); above signature: “Le Depot Americ. General de Levrault, Schoell et Comp. Imprim. Libraires a Paris”; endorsed by TJ as received 30 Jan. and so recorded in SJL.