RC (MHi); endorsed: “Lardizabal, Don Miguel de”; addressed to TJ “à la Grille de Chaillot.” Not recorded in SJL.

The boite des machines that Lardizábel wished TJ to have ready against his departure on Monday contained one of the portable copying presses that TJ had asked him to convey as a gift to Carmichael (TJ to Carmichael, 26 Dec. 1786; possibly another press was included in the box). Lardizábel’s remark that he would attempt dans votre grande machine à imprimer une page simply meant that TJ would give him a lesson in the technique of operating the large copying press.—Lardizábel was the brother of Manuel de Lardizábel y Uribe, Spanish author whose work on penology was in TJ’s library: Discurso sobre las penas contrahido á las leyes criminales de España, para facilitar su reforma (Madrid, 1782); Sowerby, description begins Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, compiled with annotations by E. Millicent Sowerby, Washington, 1952–53 description ends No. 2422.