Statement of Account with John March, with Jefferson’s Order, 10 July 1803

Statement of Account with John March,
with Jefferson’s Order

Georgetown, Potomac

The President

1802			To John March
Decr. 29	To	Binding	Historia Evangelica, Morocco	$1	.75
		Binding	Revolution Francoise, 18o: Calf, gilt	0	.62½
		Binding	Ossian, 4 vols: 18o: Calf, gilt	2	.50
1803
March 3		Binding	Plutarque, &c. 4 vols: 18o: Calf, gilt	2	.50
May 2		Domestic	Encyclopædia, vol: 1, boards	2	.50
11		Binding	Derham’s Theology, 2 vols: 8vo: Calf, gilt	2	.00
		½ Binding	1 vol: Journals of the Senate, 8vo	0	.62½

		Binding	Helvetius, 10 vols: Calf, gilt	6	.25
June 7		Binding	De L’Homme Physique, &c: 2 vols: 8vo: Calf, gilt	2	.00
		Do	Le Dentiste, 1 vol: 8vo: Calf, gilt	1	.00
		Do	Randolph on Gardening, 18o: Calf, gilt	0	.62½
		Do	Ossian, 2 vols: 18o: Calf. gilt	1	.25
		Do	Racine, 2 vols: 18o: Do	1	.25
		Do	De Cive—De Justo—Almanack, 3 vols: 18o. Calf, gilt	1	.87½
		½ Binding	Connaissance des Tems, 4 vols	2	.00
		Do	1 vol: Journals 8vo	0	.62½
		Binding	Meridies de Democrat; 12 mo	0	.50
20		12 Cases for Writings		4	.00
July 5		Canvas, and Pasting and lining 4 Maps		2	.00
10		Binding	Barton’s Botany, 2 vols: in 1, 8vo: Calf, gilt	1	.25
		Do	Lois de la Nature, 8vo: Calf, gilt	1	.00
		Do	Priestley’s Institutes of Religion, 2 vols: 12 mo; Calf, gilt	1	.50
		Do	Linn on Genius, Calf, gilt	0	.62½
				$40	.25

[Order by TJ:]

Mr. Barnes will be pleased to pay this

Th: Jefferson

July 16. 1803

MS (CSmH); in March’s hand.

historia evangelica: probably Antoine Arnauld, Historia et Concordia Evangelica (Paris, 1653; Sowerby, description begins E. Millicent Sowerby, comp., Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, Washington, D.C., 1952–59, 5 vols. description ends No. 1491).

revolution francoise: possibly Jean Paul Rabaut Saint Étienne, Précis historique de la Révolution Françoise (Vol. 28:358).

de l’homme physique: probably Rapports du physique et du moral de l’homme by Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis, a copy of which TJ received from the author in May 1803 (Vol. 38:524–5; Sowerby, description begins E. Millicent Sowerby, comp., Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, Washington, D.C., 1952–59, 5 vols. description ends No. 1246).

le dentiste: possibly Louis Laforgue, L’art du dentiste, ou manuel des opérations de chirurgie (Paris, 1802). According to his financial records, on 16 July TJ gave John March an order on John Barnes for $40.25 for bookbinding (MB description begins James A. Bear, Jr., and Lucia C. Stanton, eds., Jefferson’s Memorandum Books: Accounts, with Legal Records and Miscellany, 1767–1826, Princeton, 1997, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Second Series description ends , 2:1104).

Index Entries

You Are Looking At

Source Project: Jefferson Papers
Title: Statement of Account with John March, with Jefferson’s Order, 10 July 1803
Author: March, John
Recipient: Jefferson, Thomas
Date: 10 July 1803

Reference

Cite as: “Statement of Account with John March, with Jefferson’s Order, 10 July 1803,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-40-02-0537. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 40, 4 March–10 July 1803, ed. Barbara B. Oberg. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013, pp. 712–713.]

More between these correspondents