James Sloan to Thomas Jefferson, 29 May 1818
From James Sloan
Baltimore, May, 29 1818.
Permit me, sir, to present you a copy of, “Rambles in Italy,” as a1 sincere though slight acknowledgement of the pleasure, and instruction I have derived from your Notes on Virginia, and as a testimony of my admiration, of your talent and accomplishment
Jas Sloan junr
RC (DLC); dateline at foot of text; endorsed by TJ as received 4 June 1818 and so recorded in SJL. RC (DLC); address cover only; with PoC of TJ to Joseph Dougherty, 6 Oct. 1818, on verso; addressed: “To His Excellency, Thomas Jefferson, Monticello, Virginia.” Enclosure: [Sloan], Rambles in Italy; in the Years 1816.…17. By an American (Baltimore, 1818; , 7 [no. 320]).
James Sloan (ca. 1786–1819), author and attorney, graduated from the College of New Jersey (later Princeton University) in 1805. Henry M. Brackenridge met him during a visit to Baltimore and described him as “the most accomplished young man” he encountered there. Sloan died in Baltimore (, 117; Brackenridge, Recollection of Persons and Places in the West [2d ed.; 1868], 135–6; Baltimore: Its History and its People [1912], 2:113; Sloan to TJ, 4 July 1818; Philadelphia Franklin Gazette, 8 Apr. 1819).
1. Manuscript: “a a.”
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