Thomas Jefferson Papers

To Thomas Jefferson from Patrick Byrne, 2 January 1805

From Patrick Byrne

182 Market St Philadelphia 2 Jan. 1805

Sir

by desire of Mr. Priestley I send The Doctrine of Heathen Philosophy, Compared with those of Revelation,

being I believe the last work of his late good Father,

I am with the greatest respect, Sir Yr. very hum Sert

Pat: Byrne

RC (MHi); endorsed by TJ as received 6 Feb. and so recorded in SJL. Enclosure: Joseph Priestley, The Doctrines of Heathen Philosophy, Compared with Those of Revelation (Northumberland, Pa., 1804; Sowerby, description begins E. Millicent Sowerby, comp., Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, Washington, D.C., 1952-59, 5 vols. description ends No. 1528).

Patrick Byrne (ca. 1741-1814) was one of Dublin’s leading printers and booksellers during the 1790s. His involvement with the Society of United Irishmen, however, led to his imprisonment in 1798 and eventual banishment. By 1801, Byrne had resumed his business in Philadelphia, specializing in the reprinting and sale of law books (Richard Cargill Cole, Irish Booksellers and English Writers, 1740-1800 [London, 1986], 182-90; James McGuire and James Quinn, eds., Dictionary of Irish Biography: From the Earliest Times to the Year 2002, 9 vols. [Cambridge, Eng., 2009], 2:221-2).

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    To Thomas Jefferson from Patrick Byrne, 2 January 1805
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    Byrne, Patrick
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    Jefferson, Thomas
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    2 January 1805

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    “To Thomas Jefferson from Patrick Byrne, 2 January 1805,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-45-02-0289. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 45, 11 November 1804 to 8 March 1805, ed. James P. McClure et al. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021, p. 278.]

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