Joseph Milligan to Thomas Jefferson, 16 November 1814
From Joseph Milligan
Georgetown November 16th 1814
Dear Sir
I have run through the Catalogue & find that the amount of Volumes if we include1 the Edinburg review will amount2 to Say 6500 which agreeable to the Rule which I have laid down Viz
for a folio ten dollars
for a Quarto Six Dollars
for an Octavo Three Dollars
for3 a Duodecimo one Dollar.
will Amount to a trifle over $24000
I have not Counted the Edinburg Review in the Number as the Number of Volumes were blank there are a few other lines that I could not make out Most of them I marked * except a few that were [thus] Supposed them to be included in other works
I will undertake to print the Manuscript by Tracy and If I can dispose of 500 Copies I will allow 50 Copies in boards for the Translation and If I can dispose of 1000 Copies4 I will allow 1005 Copies for Translation but Suppose it may Sell 750 in that Case 75 copies6 for the Translation
With Great Respct yours
Joseph Milligan
P.S. | I will call on Mr Smith this day with the result of my Counting I will furnish him with a Copy of Enclosed Statement of the Number of Books with the Calculations of Value on a separate paper |
RC (DLC); brackets in original; with postscript written perpendicularly along the left margin; at foot of text: “Thos Jefferson Esqr Monticello virginia”; endorsed by TJ as received 19 Nov. 1814 and so recorded in SJL. Enclosure not found.
1. Thus in manuscript, but given what follows Milligan presumably meant “exclude.”
2. Manuscript: “amont.”
3. Manuscript: “fo.”
4. Manuscript: “Copes.”
5. Reworked from “1000.”
6. Manuscript: “copes.”
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