To Thomas Jefferson from Philippe Reibelt, 4 January 1805
From Philippe Reibelt
Baltimore le 4 Janv. 1805
Monsieur le President!
Il Vous a plû, de reunir a votre Bibliotheque les Annales du Museè des Arts p. Landon—probablement Vous aimerez, aussi d’examiner, et de garder peut etre, le Manuel du Museum Francais.
C’est dans cette Supposition, que j’ose Vous en presenter çijoint les 4 premiers Nros. qui ont parus jusqu’ici fis dont le prix est 8 gourdes:/—avec mes Tres profonds respects.
Votre Excellence Tr. hbl. et tr. Obst. str.
Reibelt
Editors’ Translation
Baltimore, 4 Jan. 1805
Mister President!
You were pleased to add Landon’s Annales du Musée des Arts to your library. Undoubtedly you would also like to examine and perhaps keep Le Manuel du Muséum Français.
Presuming this to be the case, I enclose the four issues to date. The price is eight dollars.
With my very deep respect, your excellency, I am your very humble and obedient servant.
Reibelt
RC (DLC); endorsed by TJ as received 4 Jan. and so recorded in SJL. Enclosure: see below.
Edited by François Emmanuel de Toulongeon, the Manuel du Muséum Français was published from 1802 to 1808 in nine parts. The first four parts catalogued the museum’s collections of the work of Nicolas Poussin, the Italian artists Domenichino and Leonello Spada, Peter Paul Rubens, and Raphael, respectively ( No. 4245).