Joseph Delaplaine to Thomas Jefferson, 18 February 1822
From Joseph Delaplaine
Philadelphia Feby 18. 1822
Dear sir,
I had the pleasure of writing to you a few days ago, & enclosed a prospectus of the Picture of the United States. If you may think of any thing worthy to be inserted in it I shall be happy to be favoured with it.—Or, if on looking1 into Morse’s Geography you find he has omitted any matter which you May deem interesting, I hope you will have the goodness, provided you may have leisure, to inform me of it, & it shall be supplied.
I now send herewith, the school Exercises, by my friend Charles Mead, & will be happy to receive from you a recommendation2 of it if it is contained in only 3 lines—Mr Mead I know will feel grateful for it.
Joseph Delaplaine
RC (DLC); addressed (trimmed): “Thomas Jefferson [Esqr] Monticello Virginia”; endorsed by TJ as received 3 Mar. 1822 and so recorded in SJL. Enclosure: Charles Mead, The School Exercise, containing A Course of Lessons, in which the various branches of education are introduced as Subjects for Reading in Schools (Philadelphia, 1821; TJ’s copy in ViCMRL [on deposit ViU], inscribed: “To Thomas Jefferson Esqr from Joseph Delaplaine”).
1. Manuscript: “look.”
2. Manuscript: “recommedation.”
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