RC (DLC); addressed: “The Hon Thos Jefferson author of ‘Notes on Virginia’ Montecello”; stamp canceled; franked; postmarked Philadelphia, 28 Feb.; endorsed by TJ as received 8 Mar. 1818 and so recorded in SJL. Enclosure: prospectus and subscription form for publication by Abbott & Eastwick, of Philadelphia, of a new edition of [Branagan], The Pleasures of Contemplation, stating that the work will contain 240 duodecimo pages, “be printed on good paper, with neat type, and handsomely bound in leather, and lettered on the back,” and bear a “handsome Copperplate Frontispiece,” at a cost of $1, with payment due on delivery (undated broadside on verso of covering letter; with blanks at foot for subscribers’ names, addresses, and number of copies ordered).