Fernagus De Gelone to Thomas Jefferson, 5 August 1817

From Fernagus De Gelone

New York August 5th 1817.

Sir

I have the honour of informing you that in obedience to your orders, I have directed to you per mail, from New York, the two volumes (the Second on this day) of Cormon’s and Manni’s Italian and french Dictionary, and from Philadelphia where I have also an establishment, the little pocket Dictionary of Graglia, English and Italian. The whole is $8.50.

I am very anxious of knowing what is become of the bundle containing Aristophane’s theatre.—

I take the liberty to inform you, Sir, that being called by my friends to Europe for family business, I will probably leave this Country in about three weeks, and that I will use of this opportunity to offer to this Country, a collection of books well chossen and Such as will please the Men of Taste.

Your most humble obedient Servant

J. Louis Fernagus De Gelone

RC (MHi); endorsed by TJ as received <18> 19 Aug. 1817 and so recorded in SJL. RC (DLC); address cover only; with PoC of TJ to Benjamin Henry Latrobe, [25] Aug. 1817, on verso; addressed: “Thomas Jefferson Esqr Monticelo. Milton/ Va”; franked; postmarked New York, 5 Aug.

Index Entries

Aristophanes; Théatre d’Aristophane, avec les fragmens de Ménandre et de Philémon (trans. L. Poinsinet de Sivry) search
books; dictionaries search
Cormon, Jacques Louis Barthélemi; Dizionario Portatile e di Pronunzia, Francese-Italiano, ed Italiano-Francese search
Dizionario Portatile e di Pronunzia, Francese-Italiano, ed Italiano-Francese (J. L. B. Cormon and V. Manni) search
Fernagus De Gelone, Jean Louis; imports books from Europe search
Fernagus De Gelone, Jean Louis; letters from search
Fernagus De Gelone, Jean Louis; TJ’s account with search
Graglia, Giuspanio; Italian-English dictionary of search
Italian language; dictionaries of search
Jefferson, Thomas; Books & Library; works sent to search
Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; account with J. L. Fernagus De Gelone search
Manni, Vincenzo; Dizionario Portatile e di Pronunzia, Francese-Italiano, ed Italiano-Francese search
Poinsinet de Sivry, Louis; translatesThéatre d’Aristophane, avec les Fragmens de Ménandre et de Philémon (Aristophanes) search
Théatre d’Aristophane, avec les fragmens de Ménandre et de Philémon (Aristophanes; trans. L. Poinsinet de Sivry) search

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Source Project: Jefferson Papers
Title: Fernagus De Gelone to Thomas Jefferson, 5 August 1817
Author: Gelone, J. Louis Fernagus De
Recipient: Jefferson, Thomas
Date: 5 August 1817

Reference

Cite as: “Fernagus De Gelone to Thomas Jefferson, 5 August 1817,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-11-02-0493. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 11, 19 January to 31 August 1817, ed. J. Jefferson Looney. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014, p. 592.]

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