Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Pleasants, 20 March 1814
To Samuel Pleasants
Monticello Mar. 20. 14.
Sir
To compleat my collection of the latter Sessions acts I need those of the sessions which commenced in
Dec. 1809.
Dec. 1812.1
Dec. 1813. will you be so good as to furnish me with them by the stage, adding to the packet one of Hopkins’s razor straps, without a drawer or any thing but the strap.
I subscribed for a doz. copies of miss Lomax’s poems. be so good as to send me a single copy, and to keep the rest for sale for her benefit, drawing at the same time the price of the 12. for her use from mr Gibson with that of the other articles above requested. Accept assurances of my esteem and respect
Th: Jefferson
PoC (MHi); at foot of text: “Mr Pleasants”; endorsed by TJ.
1. TJ placed a check mark in the left margin next to preceding two words, presumably after receiving Pleasants’s 26 Mar. 1814 reply.
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- A Collection of all such Acts of the General Assembly of Virginia, of a public and permanent nature, as are now in force (S. Pleasants) search
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