Thomas Jefferson to de Bure Frères, 31 October 1823
To de Bure Frères
Monticello. Virginia.1 Oct. 31. 23.
Messrs De bures freres
I recieved in due time your letter of Aug. 27. wherein you inform me that you hold in your hands a balance of 146–70 ƒ subject to my order. I observe also that a letter from your correspondent at Leipsic informs you that the 1st volume of the Dion Cassius of Sturtz is in press. as I infer from this that the whole work is not ready, and I do not wish to recieve it in part only, I abandon it entirely, and subjoin a catalogue of others which I request you to send me. I restrain it, as nearly as I can conjecture, to the amount of the balance; but I pray you particularly not to go beyond the amount of the balance so as to leave me in debt, as the remittance of small sums is difficult to effect. if sent2 to the care of mr Beasley, our Consul at Havre,3 they will be likely to come safe as usual. Accept the assurance of my great esteem and respect.
Th: Jefferson
Ad Taciti annales Supplementa Brotier. [this was published in a distinct volume in 8vo at Prague 1774. if not elsewhere]
Voltaire. Essai sur les moeurs et l’esprit des nations.
Abregé d’Histoire universelle par Segur.
Marmontel. Histoire de la Regence.
Christianisme devoileé d’Holbach.
Essai sur les isles fortuneés et l’antique Atlantide, par Bory de St Vincent. Paris 1803.
Reyneval. Institutions du droit de la Nature et des gens.
Voyage d’Antenor en Grece et en Asie par Lantier.
all to be in 8vo editions, if to be had in that format.
RC (William E. Vogelback, Chicago, 1953); brackets in original; slashes in an unidentified hand through each title except those by Tacitus and Joseph Mathias Gérard de Rayneval, with titles thus marked corresponding to the works that de Bure Frères sent TJ on 16 July 1824; addressed: “Messrs DeBures, freres libraires du roi à Paris”; notation at foot of text in the hand of a representative of de Bure Frères (two words illegible): “
| juillet 6 | 151.80. | |
| 9 | 15 | |
| 166.80 | ||
| a deduire | 146.70 | |
| 20.10 | payés par mr [. . .] abraham |
1. Word not in FC.
2. In FC TJ here interlined and subsequently canceled “as usual.”
3. Preceding two words interlined in FC.
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- Abraham, Mr.; and de Bure Frères search
- Abrégé de l’Histoire Universelle, ancienne et moderne, a l’Usage de la Jeunesse (L. P. de Ségur) search
- Beasley, Reuben Gaunt; and books for TJ search
- books; classical search
- books; on history search
- books; on natural history search
- Bory de St. Vincent, Jean Baptiste G. M.; Essais sur les isles fortunées et l’antique Atlantide search
- Brotier, Gabriel; editsSupplementa Librorum VII, VIII, IX et X Annalium C. Corn. Taciti (Tacitus) search
- Cassius Dio; edition of by F. W. Sturz search
- Christianity; works on search
- de Bure Frères (Paris firm); letters to search
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- de Bure Frères (Paris firm); TJ’s account with search
- Essais sur les isles fortunées et l’antique Atlantide (Bory de St. Vincent) search
- Essai sur les Mœurs et l’Esprit des Nations (Voltaire) search
- Gérard de Rayneval, Joseph Mathias; Institutions du Droit de la Nature et des Gens search
- Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d’; Le Christianisme dévoilé, ou examen des principes et des effets de la religion Chrétienne search
- Institutions du Droit de la Nature et des Gens (J. M. Gérard de Rayneval) search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Books & Library; orders books search
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- Le Christianisme dévoilé, ou examen des principes et des effets de la religion Chrétienne (Holbach) search
- Marmontel, Jean François; Régence du Duc d’Orléans search
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- Régence du Duc d’Orléans (J. F. Marmontel) search
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