From Thomas Jefferson to Nicolas Gouin Dufief, 14 February 1803

To Nicolas Gouin Dufief

Washington Feb. 14. 1803.

Sir

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.

Th: Jefferson

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 (Sowerby, description begins E. Millicent Sowerby, comp., Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, Washington, D.C., 1952-59, 5 vols. description ends No. 1571).

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Title: From Thomas Jefferson to Nicolas Gouin Dufief, 14 February 1803
Author: Jefferson, Thomas
Recipient: Dufief, Nicolas Gouin
Date: 14 February 1803

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Cite as: “From Thomas Jefferson to Nicolas Gouin Dufief, 14 February 1803,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-39-02-0438. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 39, 13 November 1802–3 March 1803, ed. Barbara B. Oberg. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012, pp. 510–511.]

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