Thomas Jefferson to John Laval, 7 April 1823
To John Laval
Monto Apr. 7. 23.
Sir
Presuming that Las Casas’s book respecting Bonaparte in French must by this time have come to Philada I will ask the favor of you to send me a copy, and if of more than 1. vol. to let them come by successive mails, with a note of the price which shall be promptly remitted. I salute you with esteem and respect
Th[:J.]
FC (DLC); on verso of top half of reused address cover of William C. Rives to TJ, 6 Feb. [1823]; in TJ’s hand; torn at seal; endorsed by TJ: “Laval John.”
The book respecting bonaparte was Emmanuel Auguste Dieudonné, comte de Las Cases, Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène, ou Journal ou se trouve consigné, jour par jour, ce qu’a dit et fait Napoléon durant dix-huit mois, 8 vols. (Paris, 1823; for a different ed. see , 4 [no. 102]).
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