Thomas Jefferson to Nathan Pollard, 30 October 1821
To Nathan Pollard
Monto Oct. 30. 21
Th:J. returns his thanks to mr Nathan Pollard for the vol. of Reports he has been so kind as to send him as a specimen of the printing by the Franklin press. he had before observed1 that we were indebted to that press for the republicn of the valuable hist of Virga by Capt Smith, and is happy to see that art rising in this state from it’s former too humble condn. with his thanks he prays mr Pollard to accept his respectful salutns.
Dft (MHi); on verso of RC of Pollard to TJ, 18 [Oct.] 1821; dateline at foot of text.
Two years previously the franklin press produced the first American edition of the works of John Smith (ca. 1580–1631) in two volumes. The first was The Trve Travels, Adventvres and Observations of Captaine Iohn Smith, in Europe, Asia, Africke, and America, and the second was The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Iles (Richmond, 1819; for an earlier edition of the latter, see no. 461) (Richard Beale Davis, “The First American Edition of Captain John Smith’s True Travels and General Historie,” 48 [1939]: 97–108). TJ subscribed to the work (TJ’s Transactions with James Leitch, 6 Mar.–30 May 1820, and note).
1. Preceding two words interlined in place of “known.”
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