RC (MHi); dateline at foot of text; endorsed by TJ as received 7 Nov. 1816 and so recorded in SJL. RC (DLC); address cover only; with PoC of TJ to Joseph Milligan, 6 Jan. 1817, on verso; addressed (in a clerk’s hand): “Thomas Jefferson Esqr Monticello Va”; franked; postmarked Philadelphia, 22 Oct. Enclosure: Carey’s prospectus, Philadelphia, 25 Sept. 1816, for an eighth edition of his publication, The Olive Branch: or, Faults on Both Sides, Federal and Democratic, enclosing “proposals” (not found) and indicating that the seventh edition has almost sold out; that a subscription for the new edition will remain open until 1 Dec.; that it will be printed within two months once five hundred copies are subscribed for; and that he has been induced to prepare a new edition because “Time, calm reflection, and the suggestions of judicious friends, have pointed out errors in it, which I am desirous of having an opportunity of correcting” (broadside in MWA). A fuller version of the prospectus in the Washington Daily National Intelligencer, 5 Nov. 1816, adds that the work will cost $2.75; offers a free copy to anyone who procures nine subscriptions; lists those authorized to accept orders; and contends that, contrary to what some have said, the author has guarded against “undue bias” and tried to be impartial.