Elizabeth Chase to Thomas Jefferson, 17 January [1824]
From Elizabeth Chase
Baltimore january 17h
Elizabeth Chase with her respectful Compliments to Mr Jefferson sends him the prospectus of a Book which she has in contemplation to Publish, and hopes she may be excused for an Earnest desire to procure names of the highest Standing in America to patronize the work—
E. Chase acknowledges a polite note from Mr Jefferson last Summer, on receiving her humble Book published two years since, and begs him to accept her best wishes for his health and Happiness
RC (MHi); dateline at foot of text; partially dated; endorsed by TJ as a letter of 17 Jan. 1824 received five days later and so recorded in SJL.
Chase sent TJ a prospectus and subscription paper, not found, for publication of a translation by her father, Thomas Chase, of the Punica of Tiberius Catius Asconius Silius Italicus. The edition, apparently never published, was to include “copious Notes, Critical, Historical, and Geographical,” and to “be printed on fine paper, bound in boards, in two volumes, 8vo. at $2 50, payable on the delivery of each volume” (North American Review 19 [new ser., 10] [1824]: 274).
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