Thomas Jefferson Papers

To Thomas Jefferson from John Vaughan, 20 December 1803

From John Vaughan

Philad: 20 Dec 1803

Dear Sir

By desire of Dr Priestley I have sent per Post for your acceptance, the New Edition of his pamphlet on Phlogiston, & his last answer to Lynn—The Dr. requests you will permit him to trouble you to cause one to be forwarded to M Levingston at Paris—I have taken the liberty of forwarding one to you for that purpose.—

D Priestley has been very ill, he is now somewhat better but I fear we shall not long have him with us—

Vaccination has been renewed here both from the Scab. 7. months Old in the hands of Dr Hewson, & by matter from England sent to Dr Coxe

I remain with the greatest respect Your frend &c

Jn Vaughan

RC (DLC); at foot of text: “Thos. Jefferson Prest. of US”; endorsed by TJ as received 24 Dec. and so recorded in SJL. Enclosures: (1) Two copies of Joseph Priestley, The Doctrine of Phlogiston Established, and that of the Composition of Water refuted, the second edition with additions (Northumberland, Pa., 1803; Sowerby, description begins E. Millicent Sowerby, comp., Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, Washington, D.C., 1952-59, 5 vols. description ends No. 836). (2) Priestley, A Second Letter to the Revd. John Blair Linn, D.D. Pastor of the First Presbyterian Congregation in the City of Philadelphia, in Reply to His Defence of the Doctrines of the Divinity of Christ and Atonement (Northumberland, Pa., 1803; Sowerby, description begins E. Millicent Sowerby, comp., Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, Washington, D.C., 1952-59, 5 vols. description ends No. 1663).

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    To Thomas Jefferson from John Vaughan, 20 December 1803
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    Vaughan, John
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    Jefferson, Thomas
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    20 December 1803

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    “To Thomas Jefferson from John Vaughan, 20 December 1803,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-42-02-0135. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 42, 16 November 1803–10 March 1804, ed. James P. McClure. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016, p. 145.]

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