12 January 1810, Paris. Sends a set of his Storia della guerra dell’Independenza degli Stati Uniti d’America , an account of the great scenes of the Revolution, inspired by the virtuous American people. RC ( DLC ). 1 p. In French, signed “Charles Botta.” Botta’s work, first published in four volumes in Paris in 1809, was forwarded in David Bailie Warden to JM, 26 Jan. 1810 . Botta also sent a...
2Carlo Botta to Thomas Jefferson, 29 November 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
le D r Valli , mon ami, et mon compatriote, se rend en amérique pour se procurer l’occasion d’y observer la fievre jaune. Je n’ai pas voulu laisser echapper cette occasion sans me rappeller á votre souvenir, et sans vous rémercier de l’accueil favorable que vous avez bien voulu faire á mon histoire de la guerre d’amérique. J’imprime dans ce moment-ci un poème epique intitulé, il Camillo , o...
§ From Carlo Giuseppe Guglielmo Botta. 10 January 1816, Paris. Would not dare to send a copy of his Camillus if JM had not already kindly received his Storia della guerra d’America. This may give Botta courage to place before JM the theme of his poem, which is independence and civilization. And to whom could these matters be more acceptable, than to the president of the United States of...
4Carlo Botta to Thomas Jefferson, 10 January 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
Io non so, se nella sua solitudine di Monticello ello si sia qualche volta ricordato di me. Ma so bene, che a me non uscí mai di mente la benignitá, con la quale Vostra Signoría ricevé la mia Storia della guerra d’america. Io le mando quí alligato un mio nuovo Lavoro, che di fresco ho dato alla luce, intitolato il Camillo , o Veio Conquistata . Io lo prego di farle buon viso, non per alcun...