Mathew Carey to Thomas Jefferson, 17 March 1819

From Mathew Carey

Philada March 17. 1819

Dear sir,

By this day’s mail, you will receive the Carpenter’s Price Book.

I hope to be able in a few days to forward the Vindiciæ Hibernicæ.

Respectfully, your obt hble servt

Mathew Carey

RC (MHi); dateline at foot of text; at head of text: “Thomas Jefferson, Esqr”; endorsed by TJ as received 30 Mar. 1819 and so recorded in SJL.

carpenter’s price book: the House Carpenters’ Book of Prices description begins The House Carpenters’ Book of Prices, and Rules for measuring and valuing all their different kinds of work, Philadelphia, 1812; Poor, Jefferson’s Library, 6 (no. 243) description ends .

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Source Project: Jefferson Papers
Title: Mathew Carey to Thomas Jefferson, 17 March 1819
Author: Carey, Mathew
Recipient: Jefferson, Thomas
Date: 17 March 1819

Reference

Cite as: “Mathew Carey to Thomas Jefferson, 17 March 1819,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-14-02-0131. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 14, 1 February to 31 August 1819, ed. J. Jefferson Looney. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017, p. 138.]

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