To Thomas Jefferson from Patrick Byrne, 22 February 1805
From Patrick Byrne
The Hon. Thomas Jefferson
pr. of P. Byrne
philadelphia
1805 | |||
Feb 22 | Browns Civil & Admiralty Law 2 V | 6 | :50 |
Enfields philosophy 2 V | 4 | ||
Chathams Life 3 Vols Lond Edit | 8 | ||
Mawes Gardening | 1 | :25 | |
Holmes’s England | 1 | ||
Belendenus | ___ | ___ | |
$20 | :75 |
Sir
by the mail of this morning the above were sent in a small parcell gaurded by pasteboard—I have the misfortune not to have a complete copy of Belendenus, by Dr. parr—that you receive wants from pages 41 to 48 & 81 to 88 both inclusive, it being incomplete, no charge is made for it. if I should meet a complete copy in any time hence I will forward it—my edit. of Chathams Life being sold I have sent the London—I have a great number of pamphlets most of which I printed, on English Irish & French politics &c I am making a list which I shall submit to your eye when ready, I am with great respect Sir your oblidged hum Servt.
P: Byrne
RC (MHi); endorsed by TJ as received 27 Feb. and so recorded in SJL.
copy of Belendenus: TJ received a gratis copy of Samuel Parr’s A Free Translation of the Preface to Bellendenus; Containing Animated Strictures on the Great Political Characters of the Time (London, 1788) in this shipment from Byrne ( No. 2772).