26601Thomas Jefferson to Nicolas G. Dufief, 24 June 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson asks the favor of M. Dufief to send him the books noted below, always bearing in mind the Weekly mission in small parcels for the ease of the mail: and also to note to him the prices that he may make his remittances at convenient intervals. Tull’s horsehoeing husbandry, an old book in 8 vo Young’s Experiments in Agriculture. (I think it is in 3. vols. 8 vo ) Memoirs of Theophilus...
26602From Thomas Jefferson to Nicolas Gouin Dufief, 10 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday your favor of the 6th. and the books forwarded by mr Duane. La Grange’s translations are new to me, and I am so much pleased with that of his Seneca, that I will thank you to forward me also his Lucretius with the Latin text. has the Seneca of La Grange been ever printed with the Latin text? if it has I should be glad if you would order it from France. if not, order me...
26603From Thomas Jefferson to Nicolas Gouin Dufief, 9 January 180[1] (Jefferson Papers)
I am much obliged to you for thinking of me when you got the copies of Rabaut & Meyer , and I now inclose you John Barnes’s check on the bank of the US. for four dollars, the sum noted. should you possess Dumourier’s account of his campaigns, Carnot’s or Madame Roland’s books, I will thank you for them, by the stage, noting their cost which shall be remitted in the same way.—you will render a...
26604From Thomas Jefferson to Nicolas Gouin Dufief, 20 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
I am desirous to obtain two copies of the New testament in Greek or Greek & Latin, both of the same edition exactly; and two others in English, both also of the same edition; and all four of the same format, that they may admit being bound up together. the format to be either 8vo. or 12mo. but the latter of preference. will you be so good as to endeavor to procure these for me? Accept my...
26605Thomas Jefferson to Nicolas G. Dufief, 11 January 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson asks the favor of mr Dufief to inclose a copy of the Commentary on Montesquieu published by Duane in 1811. to mr Adams at Quincy Mass. charging it to Th:J . he salutes him with friendship & respect. PoC ( DLC ); on verso of a reused address cover from
26606Thomas Jefferson to Nicolas G. Dufief, 24 April 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
Having occasion to make you a remittance in August last , I took the liberty of embodying with it certain sums which I owed to others in Philadelphia , and of asking the favor of you to pay them to the persons on their application. among these was a sum of 15.D. for the editor of the Aurora for 3. years of that paper. I have lately recieved his account by which it would seem either that he has...
26607From Thomas Jefferson to Nicolas Gouin Dufief, 12 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved safely the books you were so kind as to forward me, and if you will have the goodness to call on mr Richards, whose address shall be stated below, he will pay you 5. D 80 c the amount of them. the one you propose being by it’s bulk far beyond any time I can flatter myself with having to spare for looking into it, I must forbid myself the acquisition. accept my salutations & good...
26608From Thomas Jefferson to Nicolas Gouin Dufief, 13 March 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson returns to mr Dufief his thanks for the copy of the new edition of his work which he has been so kind as to send him, and which he shall look into with pleasure in the first leisure moment. he prays him to accept his salutations & respects. DLC : Papers of Thomas Jefferson.
26609Thomas Jefferson to Nicolas G. Dufief, 11 April 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just recieved your favor of the 4 th informing me you are about departing for Europe , and kindly offering your service there. I will avail myself of it it for a small purpose. there is at Paris a learned Greek D r Coray who writes the antient Greek in all it’s purity, and has published some very fine editions of Greek authors, particularly Hippocrates & Plutarch
26610Thomas Jefferson to Nicolas G. Dufief, 16 September 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of the 6 th with the MS. accompanying it comes to hand just as I am preparing to set out on a journey of considerable time and distance. I am therefore able to give it but a hasty perusal. this added to my want of familiarity with the technical methods of conveying instruction makes me an inadequate judge of that you propose. I have not indeed heretofore made myself acquainted, but...
26611Thomas Jefferson to Nicolas G. Dufief, 1 January 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday your favor of Dec. 16. and hasten by the first return of the mail, to express my mortification that the remittance of 31.D which I had desired Mess rs Gibson & Jefferson to make you in June, and which I had taken for granted was done had however never been done. it must have been ac c identally overlooked by mr Gibson , as in a mass of business happens sometimes with the...
26612From Thomas Jefferson to Nicolas Gouin Dufief, 9 April 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson asks the favor of mr Dufief to procure for him the following books. Pensees de Pascal Dr. Priestley’s Harmony of the evangelists in Greek. 4. vols. the same Harmony in English with notes & paraphrase. 4to. Dr. Priestley being in Philadelphia can probably inform mr Dufief if there be any depot of his works at any particular book-shop in Philadelphia. he presents him his...
26613From Thomas Jefferson to Nicolas Gouin Dufief, 15 November 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved two rolls of the work on language you propose to publish, and it is with regret, but with truth, I am obliged to assure you that so unremitting are the duties of my office, the things which I am bound to do, that I scarcely ever can command one moment to read any thing but official papers. piles of these are always lying till I can read and dispatch them. not therefore to...
26614From Thomas Jefferson to Nicolas Gouin Dufief, 17 November 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
There has been a book written lately by DuMousnier in answer to Barruel , and to the diatribes of the Anti-philosophers, which from my knolege of the man I am sure must be good. should a copy of it come to your hands I shall be happy to obtain it. in the original, I mean, for it has been translated into English, but I never read translations. Accept my salutations & best wishes. PrC ( DLC );...
26615Thomas Jefferson to Nicolas G. Dufief, 17 May 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
On the 7 th Ult. I inclosed you an order on mr Vaughan for 24. D 68 C the balance of my former account which I hope you recieved. I have just recieved from M. de la Fayette a request to send him two copies of the Review of Montesquieu published by Duane in 1811. in 8 vo which I must ask the favor of you to procure and send for me. mr
26616From Thomas Jefferson to Nicolas Gouin Dufief, 1 March 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I communicated your manuscript catalogue to the member of Congress charged with the purchase of books, and they have returned it to me with information that they had already exhausted their funds, and that therefore it was unnecessary for them to take the subject into consideration. it is now reinclosed to you with assurances of my esteem & respect. PrC ( DLC ); at foot of text: “M. Dufief”;...
26617From Thomas Jefferson to Nicolas Gouin Dufief, 5 May 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday evening the Pensées de Pascal, and am particularly pleased with the edition, being fond of those which are small & handy & particularly the petit formats. I shall be glad to recieve the work of Cuvier. perhaps it may be the very one which I asked for the last year under the title of his Comparative anatomy , doubting whether that was the title. but it is enough that it is...
26618Thomas Jefferson to Nicolas G. Dufief, 16 August 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you on the 14 th from Montpelier (the President ’s) requesting you to send on La Croix ’s Course of mathematics, and to procure for me a particular edition of Ovid ’s metamorphoses, which I am now satisfied is Minellius ’s. I have now to request that you will add to these Adams ’s geometrical & graphical essays in 2. v. 8 vo
26619Thomas Jefferson to Nicolas G. Dufief, 9 February 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved last night your two favors of Jan. 30. and all the books have been received as stated in your account . I have now to request you to send me a copy of your dictionary; let the 1 st vol. come first as being most immediately wanting. I have no doubt you are correct as to the 31.D. and that mr Gibson is so also. he has probably charged me on ordering payment, and his correspondent in...
26620From Thomas Jefferson to Nicolas Gouin Dufief, 19 February 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
On the reciept of the Parliamentary debates I had desired mr Barnes to remit you the price, and thought it done, till the reciept of your last letter . but my note to him had got misplaced, and escaped his memory. He now tells me he has ordered paiment . I have an edition of Homer’s Iliad, Gr. & Lat. 12mo. printed by the Foulis in Glasgow, and should be very glad to get their corresponding...
26621From Thomas Jefferson to Nicolas Gouin Dufief, 4 February 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved from you some days ago the three volumes of les Moralistes Anciennes, and last night your letter of Jan. 31. with Doctr. Franklin’s catalogue, which I have this morning sent to the chairman of the library-committee of Congress. I observe in it the following books Athenaei Deipnosophistorum &c. fol. Philostratus works from the Greek. fol. Durham’s Physico and Astrotheology 8vo. which...
26622Thomas Jefferson to Nicolas G. Dufief, 9 June 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of May 27. is but just now come to hand, and I write this day to request mess rs Gibson & Jefferson to remit you from Richmond 31.D. the amount of the books, in the hope you may recieve it before your departure for France should you definitively decide to go. M c kay
26623Thomas Jefferson to Nicolas G. Dufief, 7 April 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I have too long neglected to remit you the amount of your account , which I believe is 24. D 68 c the reason has been that I wished to have made up a little catalogue of wants in the same way which has not yet been done; and being about setting out on a journey of a month’s absence, I must defer my catalogue, but in the mean time inclose you an order on mr Vaughan for the above sum. Accept the...
26624Thomas Jefferson to Nicolas G. Dufief, 14 December 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I have occasion for the execution of a little commission which will be somewhat troublesome, but your experienced kindness encourages me to ask it of you. it is to get me an English bible, whose printed page shall be as nearly as you can find one, of the size of the paper inclosed, and whose type shall be of such size as that the number of pages shall correspond with the numbers expressed on...
26625Thomas Jefferson to Nicolas G. Dufief, 30 December [1816] (Jefferson Papers)
wrote him a note for the best dict. not larger than 8 vo Ital. & Eng. or Ital. & Fr. the former preferred caeteris paribus. FC ( DLC: TJ Papers , 208:37184); on recto of reused address cover of William Sampson to TJ, 30 Nov. 1816 ; abstract in TJ’s hand; partially dated; subjoined to PoC of TJ to Dufief, 14 Dec. 1816 . Not recorded in SJL .
26626Thomas Jefferson to Nicolas G. Dufief, 24 January 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I have duly recieved the Connoissance des tems for 1817. & 1818. two copies *I find on reexamn that it is a single copy of Blunt for each of the years 1817.18. that I have rec d of Blunt ’s Nautical almanac for 1817. and Graglia ’s Italian dictionary. I presume Blunt has not yet published his Almanac for 1818. At the time I recieved your favor of Dec. 16. my account with mess
26627From Thomas Jefferson to Nicolas Gouin Dufief, 14 February 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
I observe in your printed catalogue les Sermons de Massillon 15. tom. 12mo. 15. D. be pleased to forward them to me with the others, and accept my best wishes & respects. PrC ( DLC ); at foot of text: “Dufief”; endorsed by TJ in ink on verso. Dufief was offering a mixed edition of 15 volumes of collected sermons of Jean Baptiste massillon printed by various publishers between 1776 and 1801 (...
26628Thomas Jefferson to Nicolas G. Dufief, 31 March 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I am unlucky in the dictionaries I recieve from you, this being the 2 d time I believe that I have recieved them with a false half sheet, from the carelessness of the binder. the 1 st volume of the set last recieved had the 6. leaves now returned instead of the 6. from ‘Notopede—to Onglee’ inclusive, which I shall be glad to recieve from you in exchange for those inclosed. RC ( ViU: TJP ); at...
26629From Thomas Jefferson to Nicolas Gouin Dufief, 23 March 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved yesterday your letter of the 20th. and catalogue. I remark on it a work Jaques le fataliste par Diderot . if it be really by Diderot I shall be glad to recieve it with Chaptal, as also the Systeme de la Nature par Mirabeau, unless you should know that there exists an edition in petit form. in which case I would rather await your return from France, when you could perhaps bring me...
26630From Thomas Jefferson to Nicolas Gouin Dufief, 1 November 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
Among the books mentioned in the letter of Oct. 22. with which you favored me is one only which I would wish to acquire: it is the Parliamentary history 24. vols 8vo. price 30. D. should it not be disposed of before you recieve this I will thank you to send it. perhaps the vessel may still be not departed which was to bring the others.—I have the Dictionnaire des hommes Marquans. judging of...
26631From Thomas Jefferson to Nicolas Gouin Dufief, 1 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
Since writing my letter of the 23d. I observe in your catalogue Oeuvres de Seneque translation de la Grange 6. vol. 8vo. which I shall be glad to recieve with the books before written for. Accept my best wishes. PrC ( DLC ); at foot of text: “M. Dufief.”; endorsed by TJ in ink on verso. OEUVRES DE SENEQUE : TJ already owned a Latin edition of the works of the philosopher Seneca. A French...
26632From John Adams to N. G. Dufret, 30 October 1813 (Adams Papers)
I duely received your present from Mr Jefferson to me of Dr Priestleys Doctrines of heathen Philosophy compared with those of “Revelation:” and immediately acknowledged the receipt of it to Mr Jefferson— The Letter you did me the honour to write me, on the 30th of August, must have arrived with the Book; but I never saw it till yesterday. As I have no Clerk, Secretary or Amanuensis, but my...
26633From George Washington to Mrs. Jeremiah Duggan, 4 September 1779 (Washington Papers)
I sincerely wish it was in my power to give you that satisfaction which you have desired relative to Mr Duggan your husband. My inquiries have been able only to ascertain his going to St Eustatius, but under what circumstances I am altogether uninformed. In looking over the resolves of Congress I find several sums voted Mr Duggan under the description of supplies and services, all in the year...
26634From Thomas Jefferson to Dugnani, 11 July 1788 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honor of sending your Excellency the second volume of the American Philosophical transactions which came to my hands yesterday. My correspondent writes me that the first volume cannot be bought at this moment, the depot in which they were kept having been destroyed during the war. But he adds that they propose to reprint the first volume and that he will take care to send me a copy...
26635From Thomas Jefferson to Dugnani, 7 May 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
I have recieved, my dear Cardinal, in due time your two letters of May 17. and Sep. 30. from Rome: and it gave me infinite pleasure to learn that you were in good health. what astonishing things had then taken place! how much more astonishing what has since happened! these latter events too having been immediately in the scene where you are, I am filled with anxiety to learn how they have...
26636Thomas Jefferson to Antonio Dugnani, 7 March 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
My friend Doct r Barton proposing, for the benefit of his health, a voyage across the Atlantic , and a trial of the air of Europe , will probably be tempted to visit the classical and Splendid city of Rome . he is one of the Vice presidents of the American Philosophical society , Professor of Natural history, Botany, Materia Medica, and of the Institutes and Clinical practice of medecine in...
26637Thomas Jefferson to Antonio Dugnani, 14 February 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
In March 1815. I took the liberty of addressing a letter to you by Doctor Barton , a member of our Philosophical society , distinguished for his science, who visited Europe for his health, and expected to go as far as Rome . I was happy in the opportunity he furnished me of presenting myself to your recollection and of renewing to you the assurances of the sentiments of friendship and respect...
26638Enclosure C: Memorial of Joshua Johnson to the Duke of Leeds, 25 March 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
London, 25 Mch. 1791 . Rachel , an American vessel, is owned, registered, and navigated agreeably to the laws of the United States, and her cargo is the property of an American citizen. She arrived in London 22 Oct. 1790 with a cargo consigned to an English merchant, but since her register did not state that she was built in America and her construction appeared French, the Commissioners of...
26639Enclosure D: Joshua Johnson to the Duke of Leeds, 19 April 1791 (Jefferson Papers)
It is with extreme concern that I am under the necessity of applying again to your Grace upon the situation of the American Brigantine Rachel, Nicholas Duff, Master, concerning which I had the honor of presenting a Memorial to your Grace on the 25th. Ultimo, to which no answer has been given. Altho’ it has been mentioned to me, that the matter has been referred to the Right Honorable the Lords...
26640Thomas Jefferson to Richard Duke, 24 January 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
The duties of a Proctor for the Central college are of two characters so distinct, that it is difficult to find them associated in the same person. the one part of these duties is to make contracts with workmen, superintend their execution, see that they are according to the plan, and performed faithfully and in a workman like manner, settle their accounts, and pay them off. the other part is...
26641From George Washington to Benjamin Dulany, 12 September 1799 (Washington Papers)
If Mrs French or yourself, have come to any determination respecting the proposal I made in a letter addressed to you on the 15th of July last, it would be obliging to inform ⟨me of⟩ the result; as the season is fully ⟨arri⟩ved when my arrangements for the ensuing year must be ⟨made.⟩ Knowing that Mrs ⟨French⟩ had rented her Farm, I did ⟨not illegible ⟩ expect that it would have suited her to...
26642From George Washington to Benjamin Dulany, 15 July 1799 (Washington Papers)
As I grow no Tobacco, and probably never shall, I have it in contemplation to make some material changes in the œconomy of my Farms. To accomplish this object, a reduction of the present force on them is necessary; of course, the means by which it is to be effected, must have undergone consideration. Presuming then that it might be agreeable to Mrs French—or to you—to whom they will ultimately...
26643From George Washington to Benjamin Tasker Dulany, 17 November 1781 (Washington Papers)
I learn from Mr Lund Washington, that the Land formerly belonging to Mr Manley, is again about to be offered for sale, & that you & I are like to be the only competition in the purchase of it—That I often treated with Mr Manley in his life time, & since his death with his Executor for that Tract; is a fact which cannot be unknown to you: Equally true is it, that if the Land is exposed to...
26644From George Washington to Benjamin Tasker Dulany, 15 March 1782 (Washington Papers)
Your favor of the 28th Ulto in answer to my letter from Mount Vernon in Novr came safe by the last Post, but not in time for me to reply by the return of it. Delaying your answer till all parties had made up their Minds upon the subject matter of my letter, was more pleasing to me than an earlier communication which would have been indecisive; because it is much my wish (for reasons already...
26645[From Thomas Jefferson to Daniel? Dulany, 22 February 1784] (Jefferson Papers)
[ Annapolis, 22 Feb. 1784 . Entry in SJL reads: “Mr. Dulany to rent house.” TJ’s letter to Dulany has not been found nor can Dulany be positively identified, though as a famous lawyer, a leading public figure in Maryland, and a friend of TJ (see De la Serre to TJ, 13 May 1786 ), Daniel Dulany may well have been the landlord involved. On 25 Feb. TJ wrote in his Account Book: “Moved to Mr....
26646From George Washington to Elizabeth French Dulany, 23 November 1785 (Washington Papers)
General Washington presents his best respects to Mrs Dulany with the horse blueskin; which he wishes was better worth her acceptance. Marks of antiquity have supplied the place of those beauties with which this horse abounded—in his better days. Nothing but the recollection of which, & of his having been the favourite of Mr Dulany in the days of his Court ship, can reconcile her to the meagre...
26647From Thomas Jefferson to Duler, 17 January 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the honour of now returning to you the certificate of the Chevalier Danmours, in your favour. The testimony of that gentleman with whose worth I am well acquainted, would have satisfied me of yours, had any testimony been wanting. It adds another to the list of many worthy persons whom I am unable to assist; for I declare to you that I know no way on earth in which I can be useful to...
26648From Thomas Jefferson to Duler, 8 December 1786 (Jefferson Papers)
The circumstance had escaped me of my having had the honor of being made known to you by Mr. Walker at Charlottesville. However I should not have been the less ready, had it been in my power, to have aided you in procuring emploiment in some bureau here. But a stranger as I am, unconnected and unacquainted, my sollicitations on your behalf would be as ineffectual as improper. I should have...
26649From Benjamin Franklin to [V Dulongprey, Coney & fils], 12 June 1777 (Franklin Papers)
ALS (draft): Library of Congress I receiv’d your Favour of the 6th Inst. per Capt. Burnell, and am much oblig’d by the Civilities you have shown him. The Prize cannot, as you observe, be sold and Delivered in your Port, it being contrary to Treaties, and to Ordinances made in Conformity to those Treaties; But I suppose it may be done in the Road without the Port, or in some convenient Place on...
26650From Benjamin Franklin to V Dulongprey, Coney & fils, 23 June 1777 (Franklin Papers)
Copy: Library of Congress I have received your favour of the 18th inst. inclosing the Depositions relating to the taking of Capt. Burnell, for which I am obliged to you, as they give a Clearer Light into that Transaction. I am applying to Government here to reclaim him from the English as being taken from under the Protection of your Forts, and I hope we shall get him restored; but as that may...