Thomas Jefferson Papers

Thomas Jefferson to Mathew Carey, 27 April 1805

To Mathew Carey

Washington Apr. 27. 05.

Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Carey, and incloses him the price of the two testaments which he found here on his return to this place.

RC (MH); endorsed. Not recorded in SJL.

two testaments: TJ enclosed one dollar to Carey for two copies of an edition of the New Testament that had recently been printed in Philadelphia (MB description begins James A. Bear, Jr., and Lucia C. Stanton, eds., Jefferson’s Memorandum Books: Accounts, with Legal Records and Miscellany, 1767-1826, Princeton, 1997, 2 vols. The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Second Series description ends , 2:1151; Carey to TJ, 19 Mch.).

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    Thomas Jefferson to Mathew Carey, 27 April 1805
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    Jefferson, Thomas
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    Carey, Mathew
    Date
    27 April 1805

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    “Thomas Jefferson to Mathew Carey, 27 April 1805,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-46-02-0267. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 46, 9 March to 5 July 1805, ed. James P. McClure et al. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022, pp. 261–262.]

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