A Guide to a Thomas Jefferson Letter to John Laval 1823 April 30 Jefferson, Thomas Letter to John Laval, 1823 April 30 11011

A Guide to a Thomas Jefferson Letter to John Laval 1823 April 30

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Special Collections, University of Virginia Library

Accession number

11011

Title

Thomas Jefferson Letter to John Laval 1823 April 30

Physical Characteristics

1 item (1 p. on 1l.); 18 cm.

Language

English

Abstract

In this 1823 letter to a Philadelphia bookseller, Thomas Jefferson accepts an offer for one book, while refusing another as too expensive.

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Preferred Citation

Thomas Jefferson Letter, 1823 April 30, Accession #11011, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

Acquisition Information

This letter was purchased by the Library from Robert F. Batchelder, Ambler, Pennsylvania, on May 9, 1991.

Scope and Content Information

In this letter from Thomas Jefferson, Monticello, to "Dear Sir" [John Laval], Philadelphia bookseller, April 30, 1823, Jefferson accepts an offer for the two already published volumes in English of Bartolome de Las Casas (1474-1566), with the subsequent volumes to be sent later by mail and refuses a copy of Alexander Wilson's American Ornithology; or The Natural History of Birds of the United States as too extravagant for his purse.

He also expresses a wish that a cheaper eight volume edition of the text alone, or the text with just light sketches of the birds instead of the colored plates, be published some day since he believes that a cheaper version would be more useful in propagating the science of ornithology than the folio edition.