Wells & Lilly to Thomas Jefferson, 13 January 1818
From Wells & Lilly
Boston Janry 13th 1818
Sir
We recd this morning yours of the 3rd inst. and a vessel being fortunately just upon the point of sailing for Richmond, we have shipped in a small box the Books desired. Of these you will find a Bill on the other side. We hope you will receive them shortly in good order.
Stewart’s 2nd Dissn had not been published when we last heard from England. We however expect it very shortly. When reprinted it shall be forwarded by mail; as also the other Dissns as they appear.
We do ourselves the honour to request your acceptance of a copy of our edition of Cicero, as also of a few pamphlets, which may not be uninteresting.
The former has been executed with much care. We have subjoined to the 17th Volume a list of such errata as had been discovered previous to the completion of the work. Some have probably escaped our search. Still, we are satisfied, the typographical errors will be found far less numerous than in the original edition of Ernesti. We have just finished an edition of Tacitus; but whether we shall proceed in our design must depend upon the disposition of the public to encourage the design.
Wells & Lilly
RC (CSmH: JF-BA); written in the hand of a representative of Wells & Lilly on one sheet folded to form four pages, with enclosure on p. 3 and address on p. 4; addressed: “Hon: Thos Jefferson Monticello Virginia”; franked; postmarked Boston, 14 Jan.; endorsed by TJ as received 22 Jan. 1818 and so recorded in SJL.
Wells & Lilly ultimately republished the abovementioned 2nd dissn as part of Dugald Stewart, A General View of the Progress of Metaphysical, Ethical, and Political Philosophy, Since the Revival of Letters in Europe. In Two Dissertations (Boston, 1822). The firm’s edition of cicero was M. Tullii Ciceronis Opera Omnia ex recensione novissima Jo. Augusti Ernesti cum eiusdem notis et Clave Ciceroniana, 20 vols. (Boston, 1815–16). The pamphlets sent to TJ included a copy of Samuel Cooper Thacher’s Unity of God, A Sermon, Delivered in America, September, 1815 (Liverpool and Boston, [1817]; , 9 [nos. 531–2]) (see TJ to Wells & Lilly, 1 Apr. 1818).
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