Joseph Milligan to Thomas Jefferson, 20 November 1818
From Joseph Milligan
Georgetown November 20th 1818
Dear sir
I sent two complete copies of political Economy to you by post and I will on the 21st send you ten copies in boards to the care William F Gray in Fredericksburg
I will anounce the work in the Intelligencer on the first day of December, I propose to send a young man to Norfolk Petersburg & Richmond & perhaps to Lynchburg to promote the circulation and sale of work If you could give me a letter to one of your friends in each of those places it might bring the business forward more speedily I do not wish to impose a task on you but if I do not now make1 a vigerous effort to push the work it will fall stillborn from the press
I Sent you a little book on gardening thro post office which I trust reached you
Joseph Milligan
RC (DLC); endorsed by TJ as received 28 Nov. 1818 and so recorded in SJL.
The Washington Daily National intelligencer of 31 Dec. 1818 announced the publication of , and printed TJ to Milligan, [ca. 25 Oct. 1818]. The young man was James Thomas. For the little book on gardening, see Milligan to TJ, 30 Oct. 1818, and note.
1. Manuscript: “mak.”
Index Entries
- A Treatise on Gardening (J. Randolph) search
- A Treatise on Political Economy (Destutt de Tracy) search
- books; on gardening search
- Destutt de Tracy, Antoine Louis Claude; A Treatise on Political Economy search
- gardening; books on search
- Gardiner, John (author); The American Gardener search
- Gray, William Fairfax; and transmission of packages to and from TJ search
- Hepburn, David; The American Gardener search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Books & Library; works sent to search
- Milligan, Joseph; and Destutt de Tracy’sTreatise on Political Economy search
- Milligan, Joseph; letters from search
- Milligan, Joseph; sends books to TJ search
- National Intelligencer (Washington newspaper); and Destutt de Tracy’sTreatise on Political Economy search
- political economy; works on search
- Randolph, John (ca.1727–84); A Treatise on Gardening search
- The American Gardener (J. Gardiner and D. Hepburn) search
- Thomas, James; employee of J. Milligan search