John Laval to Thomas Jefferson, 29 November 1823
From John Laval
Philada Novr 29th 1823
Sir,
I Sent you, by this Morning’s Mail, the first volume of Gillies’s Aristotle, & will forward the Second on Friday next.
the two volumes 8vo Calf bd are $8.50=the Price is high, but the work is very Scarce & this copy the only one I could obtain.
I have paid to Mr A. Kneeland the amt of your Small Bill.
Four additional volumes of Las Casas’s Memorial have been published, here, Since May last (Completing 8 vols) if you wish it I will Send them to you—
I hope to receive for you, from London, early next Spring, a Copy of the last Edition of Russells’ view of the System of Education &a
Destutt Tracy’s Political Economy, addressed to me from Boston, was, as I Supposed, of the Edition of Georgetown & Consequently I kept it.
John Laval
RC (DLC); dateline at foot of text; endorsed by TJ as received 5 Dec. 1823 and so recorded in SJL. RC (DLC); address cover only; with Dft of TJ to Nathaniel Bowditch, 27 Apr. 1825, on verso; addressed: “Thomas Jefferson Esq. Monticello—Va”; stamp canceled; franked; postmarked Philadelphia, 29 Nov.
Laval sent TJ the first volume of John Gillies, Aristotle’s Ethics and Politics, comprising his Practical Philosophy, translated from the Greek. Illustrated by introductions and notes; the critical history of his life; and a new analysis of his speculative works, 2 vols. (London, 1797; Poor, Jefferson’s Library, 11 [no. 640]). bd: “bound.”
A missing letter from TJ to Laval of 18 Nov. 1823 is recorded in SJL with TJ’s bracketed notation: “Artistot. Eth. et Pol. Gillies.”
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