Mathew Carey & Son to Thomas Jefferson, 18 January 1819
From Mathew Carey & Son
Philada Jan. 18. 1819
Sir,
We hope you will have the goodness to excuse the long delay of an answer to your favour on the subject of Baxter’s Edition of Hume’s England.
The arrangements of our business are incompatible with the undertaking such a work at present. Should any new plan take place, we shall give the subject that serious consideration, to which the high character you bestow on the work entitles it
Respectfully,
✓ your obt hble servts
M Carey & son.
RC (MHi); in Mathew Carey’s hand; dateline at foot of text; at head of text: “Hon Thomas Jefferson, Esqr”; endorsed by TJ as a letter from Mathew Carey received 24 Jan. 1819 and so recorded in SJL.
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