From Thomas Jefferson to Philippe Reibelt, 9 February 1805
To Philippe Reibelt
Washington Feb. 9. 1805.
Sir
From the two last boxes sent here I have selected the following
| Desodoart Revoln de France | 2. | 40 | ||||
| Bibliotheque geographique &c Campe. 20. v. | 10. | |||||
| Elemens de Zoographie | 1. | |||||
| Elemens physiques de la jeunesse | . | 40 | ||||
| histoire de Mathematiques Bossut | 4. | |||||
| Lettres sur la botanique | 2. | 80 | ||||
| Voiage cosmographique | 1. | |||||
| Cours de Morale de Dumoustier | . | 80 | ||||
| Dictionnaire Etymologique de Morin | 2. | 80 | ||||
| Dictionnaire de Poche. Catineau | 1. | 90 | ||||
| 23. | 10 | |||||
| by post. | 2. | Nouveau testaments | 1. | 60 | ||
| 10. | Respublicae | 4. | 90 | |||
| Hungaria | 2. | 8. | 50 | |||
| . | 50 | |||||
these with two former envoies are to my debet with you. and I have this day sent to the stage office the two boxes with the rest of the books which you will be able to verify by your invoice which I return herein.
I observe in one of your small catalogues No. 1. pa. 4. Institutions du droit de la nature &c par Rayneval 8vo. and in a letter of yours lately recieved you mentioned having certain plans of Rome, and something on the Letters, languages &c of Europe Asia Africa America which, tho’ I do not know, yet as they are cheap, & something enticing in the subject, I shall be glad to recieve with Rayneval’s book beforementioned. the Tables statistiques Germaniques were delivered to the Secretary of State. I thank you for the 2 prints in Architecture, which, (one especially) are singularly elegant. I have read with satisfaction the copies of documents respecting yourself which you were so kind as to send me, and which shew that your political sentiments are of that class which is acceptable to every American, as well as the estimation in which on other accounts you were held in other countries. Accept my salutations & respects
Th: Jefferson
PoC (DLC); at foot of text: “Mr. Reibelt”; endorsed by TJ. Enclosure not found.
last boxes sent here: Reibelt to TJ, 29 Jan.
Desodoart Revoln: probably Antoine Etienne Nicolas Fantin-Desodoards, Abrégé chronologique de la révolution de France à l’usage des écoles publiques (Paris, 1802).
In making his calculations, TJ appears to have excluded the cost for the work on mathematics by Charles Bossut.
Lettres sur la botanique: possibly Lettres à Madme. de C**. sur la botanique, et sur quelques sujets de physique et d’histoire naturelle, by Louis Bernard de Montbrison, which was published by the Levrault firm in 1802. According to a notice on the verso of the title page, the second volume was intended for younger readers.
For two former book shipments from Reibelt, for which he had yet to receive payment, see TJ to Reibelt, 23 Jan., and Reibelt to TJ, 25 Jan. For the prints in Architecture and documents, see Reibelt’s letters of 30 and 31 Jan.