Thomas Jefferson Papers

To Thomas Jefferson from Imbert de la Platière, [April 1788]

From Imbert de la Platière

Paris [Apr. 1788]. Is sending TJ the first volume of “L’histoire Générale des femmes des nations les plus inconnues” which follows naturally “la Galerie universelle des hommes Célèbres” for which TJ had subscribed. If, after reading this first number, TJ approves of it, he hopes he will be allowed to send the successive issues as they appear each month.

RC (DLC); 2 p.; in French; endorsed. Without date, which has been supplied from an entry in SJL Index for a letter received “88 Apr.” Enclosure: Probably La Belle Laure, amante de Pétrarque,Paris, 1787, the first of La Platière’s biographies of women (B. N. Cat., under Imbert de la Platière; see also La Platière to TJ, 22 Dec. 1787; Sowerby No. 149).

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    To Thomas Jefferson from Imbert de la Platière, [April 1788]
    Author
    La Platière, Sulpice Imbert de, Comte de
    Recipient
    Jefferson, Thomas
    Date
    April 1788

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    “To Thomas Jefferson from Imbert de la Platière, [April 1788],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-13-02-0047. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 13, March–7 October 1788, ed. Julian P. Boyd. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1956, pp. 118–119.]

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